posted 11-02-2002 11:19 PM            

That's bullshit!
We poisoned our own military.

GULF WAR ILLNESS (GWI)

1. At Duke University researchers determined that three medications given to Gulf War soldiers when given together are toxic and we did that too when they were innoculated.

2. Gas masks and suits were KNOWN to be defective..... established by declassified memos.

3. Sensitive instruments which required 1,000 times the level considered harmful went off over 14,000 times during the war, but Gulf War soldiers were told they were "false alarms."

4. 130,000 Gulf War soldiers were downwind of toxic clouds containing sarin gas.

5. U.S. companies and allied companies provided Iraq with chemical materials to develop their chemical and biological warfare programs, including plans [technical and facility plans] on how to develop them.

6. The organism, mycoplasma incognitus (MI) has been discovered in many Gulf War veterans. Mycoplasma may have been genetically engineered in U.S. laboratories. this is the same organism found in 7 of 10 AIDS patients.

7. New ammunition containing radioactive uranium was used by U.S. troops in the Gulf War.

8. The Department of Defense has been persistent in its refusal to to recognize GWI as a bona fide illness.

9. Children of veterans from the Gulf War have also suffered serious birth defects after these vets returned from the Gulf.

10. And, a Congressional study concluded that by 1993, 78% of the wives of veterans who are sick were also likely to be ill; that 25% of their children born before the war were also likely to be sick; and that 65% of the children born to affected Gulf War veterans were also likely to become ill.

11. During the 39 day war, 75% of Iraq's chemical weapons production facilities were destroyed, which included 18 chemical, 12 biological and 4 nuclear facilities. Debris was carried by upper atmospheric currents over U.S. and allied soldiers, as shown on U.S. satellite observation tapes. One site, code named Bunker 73 consisted of ten sq miles of munitions in 100 bunkers and 40 warehouses near the southern village of Kamisiyah and contained 7.5 million pounds of serin gas and 2.5 million pounds of mustard gas.

12. Conveniently, important official logs are missing.

13. Declassified information revealed that commanders instructed troops to disregard Czech reports of low-level nerve agents. Meanwhile these same commanders were protected behind special constructed shelters with chemical and gas filters.

All of this spells coverup.