Posted on 12/15/2014 12:56:29 PM PST by huldah1776
This effort is in response to the recent reports in The New York Times, most notably an Oct. 14 article, “The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons,” which detailed its investigation and the Pentagon’s acknowledgement that as many as 600 U.S. troops had reported chemical exposure, but it failed to realize the scope of the exposure or offer adequate treatment.
In the video above posted on YouTube from Taji, Iraq, in 2008, this is the description of the video (a similar video was used by the Times): “A cache of mustard rounds found buried in a peninsula near Taji, Iraq. Kept finding and blowing rounds. Each explosion uncovered more every time. Finally got all the rounds out of the peninsula and wrapped them up in this sexy 1015 lbs. controlled detonation. Started late morning one day, end earlier morning the next day.”
The Pentagon announced it would offer medical exams and long-term monitoring of the health of service members and veterans who were exposed during the operation, which lasted from March 19, 2003 until Sept. 1, 2010.
If you were exposed and have not been contacted, call this hotline at 1-800-497-6261. Veterans who may have been exposed can get a free VA Gulf War Registry examination.
Details of weapons of mass destruction with maps of locations at NYT article...
Can’t be true.
Why, just yesterday I heard the war was started under false pretenses and there were no weapons...
The NYT article says the war was over ACTIVE WMDs, not all the many thousands of WMDs that already existed and were still capable of killing hundreds of thousands.
“Whew, that was close,” said liberals everywhere.
So. The asthma and radiation bumps from exposure are just little irritations. Right? /s
Exhaling. Crud, if it isn’t one thing it’s another. I wonder if they’ll contact those who have already passed away and how long it will take them to actually to something about it since so many medical records were destroyed by the VA hospitals.
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