U.S. Nerve Gas Hit Our Own Troops in Iraq (Gulf War I)

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http://www.newsweek.com/how-us-nerve-gassed-its-own-troops-then-covered-it-317250?rel=most_read1

U.S. Nerve Gas Hit Our Own Troops in Iraq
BY BARBARA KOEPPEL 3/27/15 AT 11:52 AM

During and immediately after the first Gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents. Though aware of this, the Department of Defense and CIA launched a campaign of lies and concocted a cover-up that continues today.

A quarter of a century later, the troops nearest the explosions are dying of brain cancer at two to three times the rate of those who were farther away. Others have lung cancer or debilitating chronic diseases, and pain.

More complications lie ahead.

According to Dr. Linda Chao, a neurologist at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, “Because part of their brains, the hippocampus, has shrunk, they’re at greater risk for Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases.”

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1. yet another way the warmongers supports the troops

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2. check out the most recent New Yorker

because it has a story about a woman whose lost most hippocampus function to encephalitis. She was a brilliant woman who is now cared for by others. No short term memory etc. Terrible.

This is exactly why the defense budget is separate from the VA budget - keep the true cost of war away from the "patriotism" of war. Lies ensue to denigrate the damaged people so they will not get the care they need.

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3. VA spending should be tied to defense spending and rise commensurately

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4. Absolutely!

DOD is rolling in $$ and yet the veterans don't have enough doctors or facilities to treat the injuries they do acknowledge.