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and Mechanisms for Accountability|page=20|pdf=https://consumersforpeace.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_101006.pdf}}</ref> | and Mechanisms for Accountability|page=20|pdf=https://consumersforpeace.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_101006.pdf}}</ref> | ||
Unmentioned major long-term effects of the US invasion of Iraq are cancer and birth defects due to the US firing depleted uranium. Iraqi government figures show the following pattern regarding the rate of cancer cases: 40 people out of 100k prior to the First Gulf War (1991); 800 out of 100k (1995); >1,600 out of 100k (2005).<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Dahr Jamail|newspaper=Aljazeera|title=Iraq: War’s legacy of cancer|date=2013-3-15|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2013/3/15/iraq-wars-legacy-of-cancer}}</ref> Dr. Samira Alani, a pediatric specialist in Iraq, noted that childhood cancer rates in Al-Fallujah sat at around fourteen percent but were difficult to determine and were likely underreported:<blockquote>We have no system to register all of them, so we have so many cases we are missing... I think I only know of 40-50 percent of the cases because so many families have their babies at home and we never know of these, and other clinics are not registering them either.<ref name=":1" /></blockquote>Further research has shown that the issue has not gone away, remaining a lasting impact of the war.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Murtaza Hussain|newspaper=The Intercept|title=Iraqi Children Born Near U.S. Military Base Show Elevated Rates of 'Serious Congenital Deformities,' Study Finds|date=2019-11-25|url=https://theintercept.com/2019/11/25/iraq-children-birth-defects-military/}}</ref> | |||
== U.S. war crimes == | == U.S. war crimes == | ||