Weapons Of Mass Destruction Used

67% of Gulf War vets had children with health problems or birth defects? Two-thirds? I don't think so. Source for this startling claim?

<p>you'd do best asking the <a href="mailto:webmaster@iraqjournal.org">original author</a>... </p><p>---<br>Jesse <br />

I tracked it down for you.

"An astonishingly high rate of birth defects in the families of Gulf War veterans is especially troubling. For example, Laura Flanders reports that the Veterans Administration conducted a state-wide survey of 251 Gulf War veterans families in Mississippi (Ref. 46). Of their children conceived and born since the war, 67% have illnesses rated severe or have missing eyes, missing ears, blood infections, respiratory problems and fused fingers."

46) Flanders, L., "Mal de Guerre," The Nation (magazine), March 7, 1994, p. 292

All of the above was taken from:

Contamination of Persian Gulf War Veterans and Others by Depleted Uranium

by Leonard A. Dietz
July 19, 1996 (last updated Feb. 21, 1999)
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Our governments,(Canadian, USA, British...), are hiding facts from our soldiers, they are demeaning what is left of their lives by deliberately engaging in obfuscation, IMHO. The soldiers can't even get proper medicines because they are not told what they are suffering from.

Great job Milton!

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Jesse

Deny Deny Deny! Just keep feeding us b.s. and telling us war is glory, we are the greatest and we can not be harmed and the poor suckers believe they are invinsible and follow off to war! I was reflecting on this war machine and I think that too many people are really believing the hollywood version of war, 'the only casualties of war are the bad guys, especially the american heroes, they always come home, they are the best' too bad it is so wrong...and obviously the media is buying into it as well, otherwise they might consider showing the caskets coming back to North America, not so hollywood though....

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

That is the great myth, Whelan. Funny thing though...some of my great uncles were in World War II. They wouldn't talk about it at all. Maybe the pubs in England or the girls in France or the parties when they got back, at least if they'd had a few drinks, but it's as if the war itself never existed.

That war was one that was necessary. How hard is it keep people from talking about a war that wasn't necessary?

I agree Rev Blair, but we can talk about it now, and talk about the past, because we haven't been shocked into silence; those who experience horrors or are forced to participate in massacres I believe have a hard time talking about it mainly because it seems so unreal! The media is trying to make it look like a cake walk, we bombed this and that and only so many U.S. military were killed,until we get the truth as in , 'we bombed such and such and so and so's father, brother, etc was killed, and this many innocent people were slaughtered and that my friends is the price of war'

People will never get the meaning of 'might is right' because might is not right it is just bullying!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?