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Dear Friends, The time has come to publicize those photographs of grotesque birth defects that US/UK imperialism has inflicted on our sisters and brothers in Iraq as well as on offspring of US/UK veterans, linked to the use of DU. These photos have to be our posters in the marches and demonstrations. We have to incorporate the film footage of birth defects in our videos and documentaries. We have to describe them in detail in our emails and articles. I know, like you, these visuals have been so disturbing that we have mostly not wanted to include them into our campaigns. Often the title "not for the fainthearted" has accompanied emails with these photos attached. But the time has come for the US/UK's dirty little secret to be revealed. I recently placed film footage of an Iraqi child born without genitalia in a documentary. The wound is a wound to all humanity...How dare they? I have a question: does anyone know there has been a similar rise of birth defects since the Gulf War downwind from Iraq in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia? I understand that the public health departments of those countries were not allowed to speak to the public about health consequences immediately after the Gulf War; I wonder if that's still the case, Philippa Winkler _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk