Another cost of the war in Iraq

It appears that we used a fair amount of depleted uranium (DU) munitions in our rifle rounds and tank shells. As a result, many Iraqi doctors are reporting sharp rises in a number of illnesses, particularly congenital birth defects and cancer. The incidence of cancer has gone from 40 per 100,000 people in 1991 to 1600 per 100,000 in 2005 and it's still increasong. Plus, diseases that were never seen in Iraq - such as new illnesses in the kidney, lungs and liver, as well as total immune system collapse - are now there. 

Congenital birth defects are particularly strange, for example, children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumors, disfiguring facial and body deformities, and complex nervous system problems. Some have calculated the rate of birth defects to be 33 times that of Europe.