[HiJinx]

Ping!
Have you seen this?

[John H K]

the U.S. depleted uranium munitions used against Iraqi armor that exposed our soldiers to radiation

Guess Hackworth doesn't know the meaning of "Depleted."

The real government scam is that politics has forced the government to admit to something that all evidence points to not existing...Gulf War Syndrome. (Fumento on GWS)

[SevenDaysInMay]

We ain't seen nothin' yet.

Before VSOB Day celebrations, the American Home Front will have more than its share of casualties. All of us must remember that too many of our warriors' families still live on Food Stamps just to get by. We are all in this one together.

Theo-fascism is our mortal enemy. Euorpe wants to sit this bloody mess out while the USA fights elements of the worst of humanity over modernity's promise. This war may get Biblical.

[XJarhead]

Gag.

I was in the Gulf War, attached to the First Marine Division. And after I came back, guess what? I've lost some hair, have some joint aches, and get some headaches once in a while. My shoulder isn't as good as it was before, my vision isn't as good, I get tired more easily, and don't have the stamina I once did.

Of course, all of my friends of similar age who didn't go to the Gulf have seen a similar decline. They attribute theirs to "getting older", but mine just must be "Gulf War Syndrome". Right?

The stats cited in that article are so badly defined it gives me gas:

So far, according to an April 2002 Department of Veterans Affairs report, an additional 7,758 Desert Storm vets have died

And how does that compare to the death rate of non-Gulf War vets over that same period? Without that information, the statistic is meaningless.

while 198,716 vets have filed claims for medical and compensation benefits. Of the claims filed, 156,031 have been granted as service-connected, with more vets being designated casualties as each day passes.

Read that one closely. Service-connected does not mean "Gulf War" connected, and even something that is connected to the Gulf War does not necessarily indicate "Gulf War Syndrome".

The 198,716 figure represents a staggering 28 percent of the vets – 696,579 – who fought in the Gulf War conflict!

Many of whom were nowhere near the front. And again, without any statistical comparison of rates for vets who weren't in the Gulf, its meaningless.

It's a natural tendency for people who have health problems to blame them on something -- some significant or unusual event in their lives. But their subjective certainty of belief doesn't make it true.