DOCTOR SAYS VACCINES CAUSED GULF WAR SYNDROME

sbs.com.au ^ | January 12, 2004

[HAL9000]

A British military doctor is backing claims that the cocktail of vaccines given to soldiers prior to the 1991 war in Iraq caused Gulf War Syndrome.

Lieutenant Colonel Graham Howe has become the first expert to directly link the inoculations to severe health problems suffered by vaccinated troops.

For 13 years Britain’s Ministry of Defence as vigorously denied that vaccines could be blamed for the diseases.

Independent research has also failed to find conclusive proof of a common link between the vaccines and a Gulf War-related syndrome, a debilitating condition.

Lt Howe, clinical director of psychiatry with the British Forces Health Service in Germany, was asked by the War Pensions Agency to examine the case of former Lance-Corporal Alex Izett, who suffered from osteoporosis, which in turn led to depression.

The former Royal Engineer had inoculations prior to the conflict, which were not recorded on his medical documents because they had officially been classified as ‘secret’.

The doctor concluded that Mr Izzet did in fact receive classified ‘secret’ injections prior to his expected deployment and that “in turn these have most probably led to the development of autoimmune-induced osteoporosis.”

Izett never went to Iraq and was not exposed to any other form of toxins,leaving no other possible cause for his illness.

His report also highlighted a “high incidence” of osteoporosis in Gulf War veterans and that the “common denominator that links him to GW vets are the vaccinations he received prior to deployment.”

Izett, who now lives in Bersenbruck, near Bremen in Germany, was inoculated like other troops against anthrax, botulism and other biological agents.

He said he went public with the doctor’s confidential report, dated September 22, 2001, so that other soldiers vaccinated with the same "secret" injections could claim compensation for the physical and mental illness they may have suffered as a result.

Last year a war pensions appeals tribunal awarded Izett a 50 per cent disability pension, based on the findings of Howe's report.

[ClintonBeGone]

More pig slop for the ambulance chasers.

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[freebilly]

Wasn't it General Sherman who said "Vaccine is Hell..."?

[XXXXX88XXXXX]

Calling Army Nurse Joice Reilly. Calling Army Nurse Joice Reilly.
Please pick up the white courtesy phone immediately.

[Marine Inspector]

A British military doctor is backing claims that the cocktail of vaccines given to soldiers prior to the 1991 war in Iraq caused Gulf War Syndrome.

This has been my belief from day one.

While the individual vaccines are tested to ensure they are safe for humans, then never test how the vaccines will interact with each other inside the human body.

[John H K]

Can't find a "cause" for something that doesn't exist (Gulf War Syndrome).

[cardinal4]

More and more Im convinced you work for the government tasked with immediately debunking theories, thoughts, speculation, etc. Its funny how quick you arrive on these threads. Not a flame at all, just an observation. You jumped on me when queried in a post about the three men in the bathroom of the DC-9 that diverted to Fort Smith on 9/11/02. Remember that one? Again not a flame just an observation..

[joesnuffy]

BETRAYAL!
FEDERAL JUDGE “FLIP-FLOPS” ON FORCED
ANTHRAX SHOTS – NOW SAYS ONLY THE SIX
PLANTIFFS IN LANDMARK SUIT ARE
COVERED – ALL OTHER U.S. MILITARY
CAN BE GUINEA-PIGGED AT WILL – WHO
GOT TO THE JUDGE? TOTAL REVERSAL
OF LOGIC – OUTRAGED READERS DECRY
BETRAYAL – “WE WILL CONTINUE THE
FIGHT,” SAYS LAWYER MARK ZAID

In a stunning reversal of a ruling he handed down just two weeks ago, a federal judge on Jan. 7 gave the government the “green light” to resume forced anthrax shots on this nation’s armed forces.

Last Dec. 22, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan decried the Pentagon’s demand that the “experimental” so-called anthrax “vaccine” be administered to all members of the military, on pain of court-martial or dismissal from the service.

Several thousand service-members have bravely refused the shots and suffered punishment, ranging from dishonorable discharge to prison terms, after declining to risk their health and that of family members. Others have died or been crippled for life after suffering severe reactions from the mandatory inoculations.

THE JUDGE DOES AN “ABOUT-FACE” ON JUSTICE

In Judge Sullivan’s former ruling, he used the term “guinea-pigging” to emphasize the Pentagon’s capricious attitude towards the safety and well-being of our armed forces.

Now the judge, who has performed one of the most shameful “flip-flops” in judicial history, doesn’t talk any more about “guinea-pigs” or the rights of Americans in uniform not to be the object of an experimental drug.

Sullivan cites a December 30 statement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the “vaccine” works just fine and is no harm to anyone, as the basis for his shameful retreat from honor and justice.

TRUSTING THE GOVERNMENT TO TELL THE TRUTH

Oddly enough, the judge acknowledged he is “highly suspicious” of the “timing” of the FDA announcement, coming on the heels of his original order banning further use of the shots on troops without their informed consent.

But a government attorney told Sullivan he was prepared to “swear on a stack of Bibles” that the shots are “safe.” So the judge claimed that – and the FDA’s specious claim the vaccine was OK – was enough to reverse his order. Sure! That’s it.

Such “reasoning” is no comfort to the millions of Americans, who have waged a bitter and expensive battle against the anthrax shot $CAM, (see our related story: “GREED AND GUINEA PIGS” below) which has done more than anything else to undermine morale and retention in our military.

NO LOGIC IN REVERSAL OF POSITION

The judge now says only the six plaintiffs in the case are safe from being forced to take the shots. We at MilitaryCorruption.com wonder why suddenly, everyone else in uniform can be browbeaten into submitting to the inoculations, while six other Americans in the military are spared? There is no logic in what the judge has done. If the shots are a danger to six, why not others?

Hundreds of outraged e-mails have poured into our mailbox blasting Sullivan for his “flip-flop” and the government (and Bush Administration) for yet another “slap in the face” to the nation’s armed forces.

[Veterans who overwhelmingly supported Bush in the 2000 election were shocked and angered to find Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “leading the charge” to maintain the unfair and illegal “disabled veterans tax” – based on the 100 year-old policy of Concurrent Receipt – whereby disabled vets lose one dollar from their retirement pension for ever dollar they receive in disability payments.]

With Judge Sullivan lifting the ban on forced shots, the government avoids the sticky question of what to do with all the service members whose lives were utterly destroyed by court-martial and loss of career when they stood up and said “NO” to being experimented on.
The Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force physicians who participated in this outrage – one notable exception being courageous Air Force Capt., Dr. John Buck – should have remembered and followed The Hippocratic Oath, sworn to by all doctors everywhere: “First, do no harm.”

READERS REACT – ATTORNEY VOWS TO “FIGHT ON”

“Put Sullivan’s name up there with Benedict Arnold, Brutus and Judas Iscariot,” said one angry Marine who e-mailed us from Camp Pendleton, Calif. “Who got to him?” asked a reader from Kirtland AFB in New Mexico. “This is doubly cruel,” said a female sailor from Norfolk, Va., “for Judge Sullivan gave us hope that justice might prevail.” And an Army lieutenant from Ft. Benning, Ga. wrote: “This latest development will only sink morale lower, if that is possible.”

Mark Zaid, lead attorney for the anti “forced anthrax shot” forces, vowed to try for a class action suit when he appears before Judge Sullivan next week.

“This is far from over,” he told MilitaryCorruption.com. “We will continue the fight no matter what.”

(EDITOR’S NOTE: It is impossible to individually answer all your e-mails on this very controversial decision by Judge Sullivan. May we suggest you take the time you would have used to write us, and instead send an e-mail or phone your congressman and senator and let them know what you think of this latest development and the Pentagon’s real motives for continuing the forced anthrax shot program? Thank you.)

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SAYS FEDERAL JUDGE IN MONUMENTAL
RULING – HUGE VICTORY FOR US – WE
FIRST EXPOSED THE $CAM IN OUR NEWS
STORY “GREED AND GUINEA PIGS” –
A WONDERFUL “CHRISTMAS PRESENT”
FOR ALL WHO FOUGHT TO REACH THIS
GOAL – GOD BLESS JUDGE SULLIVAN

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RISKING THE HEALTH OF THE U.S. MILITARY

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[HAL9000]

This has been my belief from day one.

I'm totally ignorant about vaccines, so I haven't favored one theory over another. This report is an interesting development.

I'm a bit skeptical of calling it proof based on one patient who was never in Iraq. Is it a valid proof statistically and epidemiologically?

[HAL9000]

Report: Gulf War Syndrome Linked to Vaccines

LONDON (Reuters) - A leaked British Army medical report has provided the first official backing that vaccines given to British soldiers before the 1991 Gulf War caused illnesses associated with Gulf War Syndrome, the Times reported on Monday.

It said Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Howe, clinical director of psychiatry with the British Forces Health Service in Germany, made the link after the War Pensions Agency asked him to look at the case of former Lance-Corporal Alex Izett, who now suffers from osteoporosis and acute depression, the paper said.

The Times quoted Howe as saying in his unpublished report, dated September 2001 and handed to the paper by Izett, that "secret" injections given to the soldier "most probably led to the development of autoimmune-induced osteoporosis."

Howe came to that conclusion because in the end Izett was never posted to Iraq, the Times said.

The paper added that Izett won a landmark ruling at a war pensions appeals tribunal last summer which awarded him a 50 percent disability pension.

The existence of Gulf War Syndrome and its possible causes have been hotly debated.

It has been linked variously to the inoculations the veterans received, pesticides they handled, smoke from oil-burning fires, stress and organophosphates -- chemicals that have been shown to affect the human nervous system.

U.S. and British veterans of the conflict have complained of symptoms such as respiratory and digestive problems, nerve damage, fatigue, pain, numbness and memory and psychological problems.

[StACase]

Old news, I'm more interested in what malady the malingerers from the current Iraq war are going to be whining about, and what they're going to call it.

Irag War Syndrome? Nah, been there done that, I expect it'll be a little more snappy and imaginative.

[LibWhacker]

Izett never went to Iraq and was not exposed to any other form of toxins,leaving no other possible cause for his illness.

That is a brilliant approach to the analysis, I've got to admit. But I would still like to see the numbers. Does he only have this one soldier? If so, he's got nothing. Or are there hundreds who got the shots but didn't go?

[RaceBannon]

thats funny, tell that to Joe Dulka from Ct...oh, sorry, he did 3 years after coming home!

Tell it to Kyle Bittner and the cancer he got after coming back...oh, sorry, he got better

tell that to a few other vets I worked with with GWS, these people are very sick.

Tell it to the people with ALS/

[q_an_a]

finally someone that has something to say besides opinions. There is a famous medical researcher in Dallas, who wrote a very extensive report and gave it to congress about GWS; even the conservatives don't believe him. The liberals are happy to sweep sickness for GI's under the table and then make movies about the cover up. GWS is real and people have illnesses that would make grown men full of their pompous opinions cry, especially if they had those symptoms.

[RaceBannon]

I grew up with Joe Dulka. He came home with the common symptoms, and he is one of the composite characters in the SHOWTIME special, THANKS OF A GRATEFUL NATION

Also, I helped his widow hold hearings, and boy, did I get an earful! MANY people saw scuds land where the govt denied any ever came, I spoke with former CIA people who know of Iraqi aircraft being shot down where none are admitted as having gotten to, people feeling sick immediately when scuds land or get shot down, (Some rocket fuel inhalation must be considered, but the symptoms of the people were not fuel inhalation, but mustard gas or a blood agent)

Wars all have their secret. I dont believe the Joyce Riley theory that it is a grand conspiracy to make guinae pigs out of our troops, I think people just got caught with their pants down, and are playing coverup.

[zipper]

The fact he was never in Iraq bolsters the argument that vaccines were a factor. It allows the exclusion of many other in-theater factors. He effectively is part of a control group that was not exposed to the environmental factors present in Iraq, that the DoD previously has tried to associate with GWS, such as chemical clouds, uranium exposure, dust exposure, and psychological stress.