US-Installed Iraqi Government Is Slaughtering Civilians In Fallujah With US Arms | Dispatches from the Underclass

Podcast: US-Installed Iraqi Government Is Slaughtering Civilians In Fallujah With US Arms | Dispatches from the Underclass: 

"JAMAIL: Absolutely. I don’t really think there’s any question as to what caused these defects. The cancer rates in Fallujah have gone up astronomically since both US sieges. In 2004, they had cancer rates on par with average cancer rates throughout the rest of Iraq, at least the parts of Iraq that hadn’t been bombed during the 1991 first Bush war on Iraq and so much depleted uranium munitions were used then. But compared to the average baseline in Iraq, Fallujah was right there.
And then in 2004, during both US sieges, there was massive amounts of depleted uranium munitions, which is basically a low grade radioactive weapon, used across Fallujah. I’ve interviewed a lot of the US soldiers engaged in both sieges that said, “yeah, we used it and we fired tank shells with it. We used lots of bullets with it from our guns, from helicopters, etc.” And then other toxic weaponry like white phosphorous, which was well-documented that it was used."