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Green Glossary: Gulf War Syndrome

Mickey Z.

By Mickey Z.
Astoria, NY, USA | Wed Dec 03 09:00:00 EST 2008

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As reported by journalist Eric Margolis, a Congressional report released in mid-November concluded that one out of four U.S. soldiers who served in the 1991 war against Iraq "suffered serious, long-lasting, or even permanent neurotoxic damage from exposure to drugs and chemicals." That means, adds Margolis, "175,000 American GI's out of the 697,000 deployed to the Gulf in 1990-91 were permanently injured."

This finding comes after 17 years of U.S. Government denials in the face of veterans complaining of "memory loss, lack of concentration, severe headaches, fatigue, and pains in different parts of the body, digestive and respiratory problems, and skin eruptions." The recent study lists the primary causes as an anti-nerve gas medication, pyridostigmine bromide, and the use of powerful pesticides and insect-repellants like highly concentrated DEET.

"Other long-suspect agents, like anthrax vaccines, and exposure of 100,000 U.S. troops to Iraqi poison gas dumps blown up by the U.S. Army, may also have played a role." writes Margolis. "The study found no link to another suspected culprit, depleted uranium. That is another scandal waiting to be revealed."

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