Guest guest Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 BABY BORN W/DEFORMITIES: DAD EXPOSED IN IRAQ TO D.U. http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=17794 Posted By: Caffeinated Thursday, 30 September 2004, 5:16 p.m. Gee, not to sound all cynical or anything, but maybe now that AMERICAN babies are being born deformed they'll acknowledge the dangers of depleted uranium. It's been happening since the FIRST Gulf War to Iraqi's, tens of thousands of Iraqi babies. Then again, look how well the government has dealt with Gulf War Syndrome and how they're treating the wounded vets from this war. This is going to be a really horrible problem... *snip* Army National Guard Specialist Gerard Darren Matthew tested positive for uranium contamination after he returned from Iraq. He suffered constant migraine headaches, blurred vision, blackouts and a burning sensation whenever he urinated. Shortly after he returned home, his wife became pregnant. When his daughter, Victoria Claudette, was born on June 29 she was missing three fingers and most of her right hand. The family believes the deformities are a result of the depleted uranium contamination. from the interview: " GERARD DARREN MATTHEW: Well, I was deployed January 15 of 2003, and I moved out, shipped out, from Fort Dix, April 10, arrived in country April 11. Stayed over there, came home on emergency leave in August, and that's when I started receiving the problems. Initially, I was getting swelling and burning sensation, but I thought it was attributed to the heat, being in a high heat environment. As time went on, going back, I started getting worse. I started getting swelling in my face, blurred vision, because I'm a truck driver, and I felt like I saw my face two -- two different faces. If you put a cross section down the middle of my face it's like I'm seeing a right-side facial droop coupled with blurred vision. It was very traumatic because I've never had any problems before. I'm a very healthy person. I'm a runner, and to take this and now have a child with a problem, and getting a result, it's really traumatic. " *end snip* This baby was born with a relatively minor deformity and should have a normal life. HOWEVER, if you have ever seen photos of the deformities suffered by Iraqi babies...you know what's coming. We can hold out hope that the babies born to exposed vets will not be born with catastrophic abnormalities due to the fact that the mothers weren't living in Iraq while carrying them. Which leads to the next question: What about the babies born to the American servicewomen who got pregnant while serving? Remember the " epidemic " of pregnancies among female G.I.'s a while back? If you can take it, this is a link to a page of " extreme birth deformities " found in Iraqi babies whose mothers were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf War. WARNING: VERY graphic and upsetting photos. I cannot stress enough that these are extremely difficult to look at. Note that there is a baby (fourth from bottom) born to a U.S. Gulf War Vet: http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html DEMOCRACY NOW! - interview w/DU exposed vets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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