Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers | Democracy Now!

Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers | Democracy Now!

"In Fallujah, we are seeing an absolute crisis of congenital malformations of newborns," reporter Dahr Jamail told us in March.

"They’re extremely hard to bear witness to. But it’s something that we all need to pay attention to, because of the amount of depleted uranium used by the U.S. military during both of their brutal attacks on the city of 2004, as well as other toxic munitions like white phosphorus."

This horrific story shocked our audience when it first aired, and it was shared widely — making this report #2 in our list of the 20 most-viewed segments of 2013. If you haven't watched it yet, please do.