Petros Houhoulis
Banned
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- Greek
Here is a different perspective of how IS started according to Russian TV. It basically blames its birth on the invasion of Iraq on the Bush (USA) and Blair (UK) coalition were Thousands of Civilians including Children have been starved and slained in a somehow cold and cruel and clumsy invation. (making no headlines in the Western media). Do they have a point or not?
Unfortunately, they have more of a point. The total number of casualties in Iraq after 2003 exceed 1 million people, although it has to be pointed out that the actions of the western allies killed or wounded only 1/4 of them directly. The most of the casualties are a result of the civil war between Sunnis and Shias, as well as inter-tribal conflicts. That goes on top of the half a million babies which died of malnutrition and preventable diseases due to the sanctions against Iraq after the first gulf war.
A major cause of deaths probably relates to the restriction of the water resources of Tigres and Euphrates by Turkey by a stunning 80% since 1975. RT makes no mention of it.
ISIS begun in Fallujah where the Yankees bombed repeatedly with depleted Uranium bombs. The result is that the newborn of Fallujah have more genetic deformities than Hiroshima and Nagasaki had after they were nuked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Iraqi_population
Since 2001, medical personnel at the Basra hospital in southern Iraq have reported a sharp increase in the incidence of child leukemia and genetic malformation among babies born in the decade following the Gulf War. Iraqi doctors attributed these malformations to possible long-term effects of DU, an opinion that was echoed by several newspapers.[81][133][134][135] In 2004, Iraq had the highest mortality rate due to leukemia of any country.[136] In 2003, the Royal Society called for Western militaries to disclose where and how much DU they had used in Iraq so that rigorous, and hopefully conclusive, studies could be undertaken out in affected areas.[137] The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) likewise urged that an epidemiological study be made in the Basra region, as asked for by Iraqi doctors,[138] but no peer-reviewed study has yet been undertaken in Basra.A medical survey, "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009" published in July 2010, states that the "…increases in cancer and birth defects…are alarmingly high" and that infant mortality 2009/2010 has reached 13.6%. The group compares the dramatic increase, five years after the actual war 2004, or exposure, with the lymphoma Italian peacekeepers[139] developed after the Balkan wars, and the increased cancer risk in certain parts of Sweden due to theChernobyl fallout. The origin and time of introduction of the carcinogenic agent causing the genetic stress the group will address in a separate report.[140] The report mentions depleted uranium as one "potentially relevant exposure" but makes no conclusions on the source.
Four studies in the second half of 2012—one of which described the people of Fallujah as having "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied"—renewed calls for the US and UK to investigate the possible links between their military assault on the city in 2004 and the explosion in deformities, cancers, and other serious health problems.[141] Despite the known use of depleted uranium by allied forces, no depleted uranium has been found in soil samples taken from Fallujah,[142] likely in part due to the fact of such particles being hard to detect as well as a lack of peer-reviewed research on the matter of irradiated soil content.[143]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah#Health
In 2010 it was reported that an academic study[49] had shown "a four-fold increase in all cancers and a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer." since 2004.[50] In addition, the report said the types of cancer were "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout", and an 18% fall in the male birth ratio (to 850 per 1000 female births, compared to the usual 1050) was similar to that seen after the Hiroshima bombing.[50]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah_during_the_Iraq_War#Health_effects
Research by Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi published in 2010 lent credibility to anecdotal news reports of increases in birth defects and cancer after the fighting in 2004.[50] Results from a survey of 711 households in Fallujah on cancer, birth defects and infant mortality suggested that large increases in cancer and infant mortality had occurred. Responses to the questionnaire also suggested an anomalous mean birth sex ratio in children born a year after the fighting, indicating that environmental contamination occurred in 2004. Although the authors noted the use of depleted uranium as one possible source of relevant exposure, they emphasized that there could be other possibilities and that their results did not identify the agent(s) responsible for the increased levels of illness.