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Originally posted by Mo:
Well, yes, I agree what happened here is horrible ...yet it is baffling to see those who exibit support for animals who at the same time simply 'LOL' your way through every aspect of this War..
considering the immense human and animal suffering in Iraq, that being a laughing matter makes posts like this confusing IMO.

Hundreds of thousands of animals have died as a consequence of human warmaking..in Iraq the suffering has been tremendous.
Do you also advocate support for animal life in the Middle East?

here, for example, is just one element of human/animal suffering (in adition to this is efects of bombing, no clean water or food, as well as white phospherous and the continued use of D.U.) .. and what is the justification for this? (not to mention the effect on himans, childean, and the unborn:

Depleted Uranium And Its Impact
On Animals and Environment
in Iraq and Algeria

Prof. Dr. Al- Aboudi Abdul Kadhum Alaboudi
Oran University, College of Science, Faculty of Biology,
31000 Oran

French nuclear tests in Algeria from 1960-1967 (Al-Aboudi 2000), and USA military activities in Iraq in
have thrown huge amounts of uranium contamination (and, in the case of
Iraq, left thousands tons of depleted uranium, or “DU”) over large areas of Algeria and Iraq respectively.
As a result, the people, animals, and environments in these areas have been and will continue to be irradiated by
ionizing radiation for long periods of time.

There are strong associations between the rise in incidence of some health problems in Iraq and the exposure
to the war environment over time.

This study aims to reveal the toxic effects of weapons used in nuclear tests and in war on cells counts and on
cell structure of experimental animals which lived in regions contaminated with depleted uranium (DU).

Biological samples collected from different bombarded sites showed positive results on experimental camels.

Many epidemiology of cancer and many changes in hematological parameters were observed in blood
samples taken from jugular vein of Iraqi and Algerian camels ,Camels dromadarious, in the southern
governorates in Iraq, namely Basrah; and in the southern Sahara region, namely Ragan in Algeria.

This is an hematological analytic study comparing the various hematological parameters of the blood of camels
which lived in two different regions: in south-Saharan Algeria, where they had been exposed to ionizing
radiation from French nuclear weapons tests from 1960-68; and in southern Iraq, where they had presumably
been exposed to ionizing radiation from the use of du weapons used by the Coalition Forces during the first Gulf
War in 1991.

The study is designed to assess the association between the observed health problems of the animals which
lived in regions contaminated with radioactive isotopes (from French nuclear weapons tests in Algeria and DU
weapons use in Iraq), and their exposure to this radiation.

Many tests have shown leukemia in both Iraqi and Algerian people, camels and other animals. Within a given
tissue, like blood, the cells vary greatly in their response to radiation and dose rate, the time, and period of
exposure.
It is known (Eitam et al. 1976) that camels have high resistance to the various environmental stressors found in
the different environments in which they live, and that their erythrocytes have osmotic resistance to
hyperthermia and also to radiation effects.

The high hemolysis was observed in blood samples of camels, which had stayed a long time in some
contaminated regions. From different studies and results, which were measured in our laboratory, erythrocytes
of healthy camels showed a high resistance to heat and radiation. At the same time the human erythrocytes show
more sensitivity to effects of radiation. That means the humans in these regions are more severely affected by
the ionizing radiation.


Mo

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Originally posted by heiwalove:
hmm. it is quite interesting to me that you are far more committed to animal rights than human rights. both are important, of course. but there is indeed a disconnect in your politics.

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