Not with our blood . . .

CIVIC CENTER RALLY for PEACE

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 18, 2003

We can't let the warmongers send young Americans to fight, and die, for the benefit of US oil companies.

We have to come together the way we did in the civil rights movement and the movement against the Vietnam War to make our government listen.

Regime Change Begins At Home

Iraq sees 12 fold increase in cancer, depleted uranium cited

Number of cancer cases (Leukemia and kidney, liver and lung cancer) reported has increased in Iraq especially in the southern Iraqi cities.

Depleted Uranium Malignancies for Children in Southern Iraq

Information on the incidence of malignancies among children below 15 years of age in Basrah, southern Iraq was updated to include 1999 in addition to the already reported for the period 1990-1998. There has been a 100 % rise in the incidence of various forms of leukemia among children in 1999 compared to 1990 while the reported percentage increase 1997 compared to 1990 for the same forms was 60 %.

Vatican Journal: Oil Drives War Plan

VATICAN CITY -- A Vatican-sanctioned journal Thursday attacked the United States' justification for a possible war in Iraq, saying it was motivated by economics and would spark a wave of terrorism and more trouble in the Middle East.

   EXTREME BIRTH DEFORMITIES

    "Unborn children of the region [are] being asked to pay the highest price, the integrity of their DNA."

Ross B. Mirkarimi

The Arms Control Research Centre, from his report: 'The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf Region with Special Reference to Iraq.' May 1992

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I have recently received large numbers of photographs of horrendous birth deformities that are being experienced in Iraq. I have not, quite frankly, ever seen anything like them. I urge you to copy this page / these pictures and circulate them as widely as possible.

In an act of stark cruelty, the US dominated Sanctions Committee refuses to permit Iraq to import the clean-up equipment that they desperately need to decontaminate their country of the Depleted Uranium ammunition that the US fired at them. Approximately 315 tons of DU dust was left by the use of this ammunition.The Sanctions Committee also refuses to allow the mass importation of anti-cancer treatments, which contain trace amounts of radio-isotopes, on the grounds that these constitute '...nuclear materials..'