Staggering number of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq (WARNING: Graphic)

[babylonsister]

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Young women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs. In addition, young children in Fallujah are now experiencing hideous cancers and leukaemias. These deformities are now well documented and direct contact with doctors in Fallujah report that:

In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 new born babies, 24% of whom were dead within the first seven days and a staggering 75% of the dead babies were classified as deformed.

This can be compared with data from the month of August in 2002 where there were 530 new born babies of whom six were dead within the first seven days and only one birth defect was reported.

Doctors in Fallujah have specifically pointed out that not only are they witnessing unprecedented numbers of birth defects but premature births have also considerably increased after 2003. But what is more alarming is that doctors in Fallujah have said, "a significant number of babies that do survive begin to develop severe disabilities at a later stage".

As one of a number of doctors, scientists and those with deep concern for Iraq, Dr Chris Burns-Cox, a British hospital physician, wrote a letter to the Rt. Hon. Clare Short, M.P. asking about this situation. She wrote a letter to the Rt. Hon.Douglas Alexander, M.P. the Secretary of State of the Department for International Development (a post she had held before she resigned on a matter of principle in May 2003) asking for clarification of the position of deformed children in Fallujah.

Related:
Can You Say Depleted Uranium?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7022310&mesg_id=7022310

[avaistheone1]

1. Just think. Afganistan we can do this for you too.

:sarcasm:


:grr: :grr: :grr:

[izquierdista]

2. Not white phosphorus

Phosphorus is necessary for life and once the white phosphorus burns, it becomes fertilizer for growing plants. Not so with depleted uranium, which is the true cause of these horrors. The military is so stupid about the use of depleted uranium that they have exposed thousands of soldiers to it, and these birth defects will follow them home.

[EFerrari]

4. They already are. I read, now years ago, that the children in military families

born before deployment may be the only ones unaffected.

[greennina]

3. And Republican rejoice!

Seriously, those people are animals.

[libodem]

5. Thank you for posting this

The next demographic to watch, will be the children of soldiers who were exposed, to depleted Uranium.