The Pentagon knew about the dangers of depleted uranium but failed to warn the soldiers. Depleted uranium remains radioactive for over 4 billion years and has traces of plutonium, one of the most toxic hazardous waste substances. The government does not want to admit to this or have to pay the huge amounts of money needed to deal with such problems. At the Basra Hospital, Iraqi doctors tell us that in 1988 they had 34 deaths due to cancer. In 1998, there were 428 deaths caused by cancer.
Every day there is at least one or two malformed babies being born.
And now, depleted uranium has been spread over places such as Kosovo, Serbia and other countries the U.S. bombs. I encourage everyone reading this article to go and see for yourself. It is up to the people of this country to educate themselves, so we can put a stop to the sanctions that have killed over 1.5 million innocent Iraqi people. Our government is guilty of massive and horrendous war crimes against Iraq. I also recommend two other films on Iraq.