Gulf War Syndrome: NOT PSD

Gulf War Syndrome often gets dismissed as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. I’ve known a few people that had it during my military years. They would say that they were told to take pills that they had no idea what they were and it wasn’t optional. Steven Reinberg, a Health Day reporter recently stated in an article.

It’s likely cause was exposure to toxic chemicals that included pesticides that were often overused during the war, as well as a drug given to U.S. troops to protect them from nerve gas, a frequent weapon of choice of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

This would explain the pills, right? Was this drug not tested in depth before administering to the troops? Probably so. It’s been a conspiracy theory for awhile now that the U.S. Military uses troops as guinea pigs without them knowing it. In the late 90’s the Clinton administration started mandatory Anthrax vaccinations even though the FDA was trying to revoke the Anthrax Vaccine manufacturers license due to deficiencies. I was right at the end of my 4 year contract with the Marines and was told at some time that I would have to have this vaccine. I had heard rumors that it could cause some adverse side effects so I didn’t bother top follow out that order.

It wasn’t until 3 years later that they stopped administering this vaccine. Shortly afterwards, the Anthrax attacks happened and they reinstated the Anthrax vaccine. Kind of makes you wonder if the Anthrax vaccine manufacturers had anything to do with those attacks.

During this time I was in the U.S. Army and it came up once again. I was told that I would have to get the vaccination. Once again, I did not follow through with that. Call me insubordinate or whatever. The truth is that more people have died from the vaccine than have actually died from Anthrax. I wasn’t taking that chance.

Back to the Gulf War issue. These Gulf War vets aren’t getting the treatment they deserve. They aren’t the only ones that do not get proper treatment. Paperwork in V.A. hospitals get’s shuffled around so much. It get’s lost, misplaced or even thrown away. We can’t even take care of our own but we send more foreign aid overseas. How can the U.S. Government tell us to Support our troops when they aren’t even doing their part. Even after Agent Orange, we just don’t learn. We don’t have to worry about other countries poisoning our troops, we do that enough on our own.

You can read Steve Reinberg’s article at MSN Health.