This will cause the US taxpayers billions and billions for heath care and VA disability benefits. Another cost for the first Gulf War that was not necessary as Bush I attacked after Sadam Hussein agreed to withdraw from Kuwait and was in fact actually doing so as fast as possible.. The resulting turkey shoot of defenseless Iraqis in the open with no air support seemed at the time to be so costless for the United States. ********** BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE: SCIENTISTS LINK GULF WAR ILLNESS TO CHEMICALS FROM U.S. BOMBINGS The 20-year mystery over Gulf War Illness, also known as Gulf War Syndrome, is finally close to being solved. The Reno Dispatch has learned exclusively that two new peer-reviewed scientific research studies whose findings are being released this week explain the enduring controversy over what caused many of the illnesses among literally hundreds of thousands of Gulf War veterans. The first study confirms what many veterans already believed: weather patterns carried a massive toxic chemical cloud resulting from the U.S. bombing of Iraqi chemical weapon storage facilities a long distance before these chemicals ultimately fell on U.S. troops. This is being dubbed by some as the largest example of "friendly fire" in American history, because the so-called nerve and blister agents that dropped on American troops were supplied to Iraq by the U.S. before the Gulf War. These chemicals were then bombed by U.S. forces, which lifted them into the atmosphere and dropped on our own troops. The second study confirms that Gulf War Illness reports were higher at the places where the sarin fell. “Our peer-reviewed scientific findings bring us full circle by confirming what most soldiers believed when they heard the nerve gas alarms. The alarms were caused by sarin fallout from our bombing of Iraqi weapons sites,” James J. Tuite, who led the first study, said in a statement. Tuite, a former special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, first came to this conclusion while heading the initial investigation into Gulf War Illness for a U.S. Senate committee in 1994. Over the years, he continued collecting evidence as national security adviser to Senator Robert Byrd, President pro tempore of the Senate. But Tuite now has the science to back up his assertions. Gulf War veteran Paul Sullivan, a highly respected veterans advocate who works at Bergmann & Moore, a law firm that handles veteran disability claims, tells me this morning, "For more than two decades, no one believed us when we said we are sick, and no one believed us when we said we were exposed to chemical weapons, including sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gas. Now we finally have overwhelming scientific evidence that must immediately force the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide healthcare and disability benefits, including presumptive benefits for chemical exposures." http://therenodispatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/bombshell-exclusive-scientists-link_13.html
