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..........BUT ROD, SADAM TORTURED HIS OWN PEOPLE !!!!!
Maradona:
If we weren't there for the oil, then they would have no need to set them ablaze. However, since they know we're there to steal their oil, they feel the need to do what they can to hinder that.
smerlus:
we didn't steal any oil during desert storm and they set them ablaze...how do you explain that?
Maradona:
--- Quote from: smerlus on July 08, 2004, 11:14:41 PM ---we didn't steal any oil during desert storm and they set them ablaze...how do you explain that?
--- End quote ---
During Desert Storm, Iraqis set ablaze Kuwaiti oil wells. :)
You do know the history and reasons behind this right? If you don't let me know, and I'll school you again.
smerlus:
Trench fire just outside Baghdad, 2003
http://www.warinformation.com/Iraqi_Front_Journal/Battle_Journal.htm
The oil fires in 2003 were few in number, compared to 1991. Only seven oil wells were set on fire by Iraqi forces in the opening hours of the war. There are still health hazards from the smoke because of the ingredients in the smoke. Saddam filled trenches with oil and set them on fire in order to block laser-guided missiles from reaching their targets through the smoke. The trench fires have cause air pollution and soil contamination.
The air pollution from the trench burning oil has cause serious health problems. The estimates are in the thousands of possible deaths as people breathe in tiny particles that enter the lungs. The people at greatest risk are those with respiratory problems. Certain particles are known to cause cancer. The particles are called "polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)" and "PM10s." (BBC News) The oil fire smoke contains "contaminants such as sulphur, mercury, dioxins and furans." (BCC News) The soil contamination that comes from oil well fires and spills seeps into the ground resulting in ground water pollution or contamination. The pollution has affected the ecosystem destroying fragile desert regions.
Pollutants from burnt crude oil (wells or trenches) depends on the mixture and type of crude oil. The crude oil could contain "hydrogen sulphide (H2S), water and/or natural gas, and the presence of naturally occurring radioactivity, especially dissolved radon isotopes as products of the natural uranium decay series" (Desk Study on the Environment in Iraq).
The "Desk Study on the Environment in Iraq" lists the following contaminates:
• Extreme heat
• Carbon monoxide
• Unburned hydrocarbons
• Poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
• Polychlorinated-dibenzo-dioxins and furans
• Carbon soot
• Oxides of sulphur
• Oxides of nitrogen
• Carbon dioxide
• Radon
The extreme heat and carbon monoxide causes immediate death. The rest of the list causes chronic problems over a period of time
class dismissed
smerlus:
Medical Survey Regarding the Effects of the
Iraqi Aggression on Kuwait's Health Care System
Professor J.A. Haji and Dr. Y.Y. Al-Sultan from the College of Administrative Science at Kuwait University produced a report titled AThe Effect of the Iraqi Aggression on Hospital Costs in Kuwait. As part of their research, they conducted a survey in November of 1996 to evaluate the adverse effects of the Iraqi aggression on Kuwait's health care system. One hundred doctors were asked to give their opinions on the actual and expected impact of the invasion. Seventy-nine doctors who were employed in the six major public hospitals responded, and this is a summary of the data. (P.43-44)
96.2% of those surveyed believed that there had been a significant increase in the incidence of both psychological illness and respiratory diseases.
78 of the 79 respondents believed the Iraqi aggression would continue to have long-term effects on health conditions in Kuwait.
94.9% believed that new diseases had emerged in Kuwait since its liberation and 35.4% (more than one-third) also felt that new diseases would appear in the future.
94.9% of the doctors blame the occupation for the increased percentage of newborn Kuwaiti babies weighing less than 2.5 kilograms.
50.6% of the respondents felt that the pollution from the aggression had a severe impact on the number of spontaneous abortions. Another 38% were of the opinion that this effect had been mild.
58.2% of the doctors attributed the increase in the percentage of low birth weight babies to pollution from the oil fires.
More than two-thirds (67.1%) believed there was a strong relationship between lung disease and the pollution and smoke from the oil fires.
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