Fruits of US "liberation"

"Professor Nigel Brown, an expert in the causes of birth defects and dean of the faculty of medicine and biomedical science at St George's, University of London, points out that war zones such as Falluja involve many of the risk factors that cause deformities in children. "The whole of the war situation produces a very unusual set of circumstances to which the civilian population is exposed, mainly involving the destruction of the built environment and its knock-on effects," he said. "Those include the degrading of sanitation, the stress [on people of being in a place of conflict], the disruption of the water supply, poor nutrition and air pollution caused by both chemicals and particulates." It was impossible to identify any one of those particular factors that may lie behind the apparent dramatic increase of birth defects in Falluja." (thanks Olivia)