Gulf War Syndrome No Longer Recognized
by Charles Coughlin
George Bush Senior invaded Iraq to appease the Zionists and to raise the price of oil –just like his son did. After the war, when large numbers of our soldiers came down with Gulf War Syndrome, Bush Senior stubbornly refused to acknowledge that this disease existed. This continued to be the policy of the Veterans Administration for four years after the war. Just recently Bush Junior has decided to revert back to his father’s policy of selling short the vets of the First Gulf War.
The motivation to sell out veterans of the First Gulf War may not be merely Bush family callousness. Today, tens of thousands of vets from the latest Iraq War are coming home with missing limbs and post traumatic stress disorder. There have been embarrassing stories of vets being hurried out of hospitals or put on waiting lists for treatment. Given this unfortunate set of events, the vets suffering from Gulf War Syndrome may be getting the “bum’s rush” so the flood of new casualties will have room at the limited number of veterans’ facilities.
A CNN article reports “There is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome, even though U.S. and foreign veterans of the war report more symptoms of illness than do soldiers who didn’t serve there, a federally funded study concludes. U.S. and foreign veterans of the Gulf War do suffer from an array of very real problems, according to the Veterans Administration-sponsored report released Tuesday. Yet there is no one complex of symptoms to suggest those veterans — nearly 30 percent of all those who served — suffered or still suffer from a single identifiable syndrome. ‘There’s no unique pattern of symptoms. Every pattern identified in Gulf War veterans also seems to exist in other veterans, though it is important to note the symptom rate is higher, and it is a serious issue,’ said Dr. Lynn Goldman, of Johns Hopkins University, who headed the Institute of Medicine committee that prepared the report.”
Captain Joyce Riley has been working to get justice for Gulf War Vets. One website has a speech of hers transcribed: “…My story started in 1991, when I decided to go back to the Air Force Reserve. I had been stationed in the late 1970’s in New York State, and I had been involved as a flight nurse in the Air Force. I got out and was living my life, but then I heard that there was a war and that many of our men were going to die if they didn’t have adequate care, and that they needed trained flight nurses. So, I decided to back into the service of my country. I went back to Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio and I volunteered to go to Saudi Arabia. As it was, I didn’t go to Saudi Arabia because the cease-fire came, so I served active duty missions on a C-130 aircraft for about six months. After that, I returned back to Houston to my job, where I was a heart, lung, kidney and liver transplant nurse in Houston, Texas. I became very ill and I could get no answers. I didn’t know why I was sick. No one would talk with me about it. No one would help me with it, and I had to find out the answers myself, alone.
So, I began the investigation myself to answer the question of why I was sick. I didn’t even go to the Persian Gulf. They call it the Persian Gulf disease and the Persian Gulf Registry. They do that for a reason, because then they can exclude all of us who are sick who didn’t go to the Persian Gulf. Well, I didn’t go and I was still sick, and I wanted to know why. The only thing I had in common with those who did go is that I had received the immunizations and that I had a lot of contact with Gulf War veterans who were returning back to the states, and with other members of our unit. Little did we know at the time that the biologicals that were used were impregnated in the equipment they had, such as tents and duffle bags. It was being spread to all of us and we didn’t even know it. We were being told a lie. America, I am sorry to tell you that we have been told one of the biggest lies this country has ever perpetrated upon us. They are telling us there is no Gulf War disease. They are telling us biologicals were not used. They are not even telling you that between 10,000 to 12,000 Gulf war vets have already died.
I began my investigation and I went into depression the day I realized we had been lied to. I had been involved with President Bush and with the White House, because I had been involved in organ transplantation. I wrote a letter and called the White House and invited him to come to Houston with Dr. Cooley to sign an organ donor card. He and Barbara did accept the invitation, and I met with them, and they signed an organ donor card. President Bush told me at the time that ‘I appreciate what you are doing. If this had been available years ago, perhaps my daughter Robin might not have died.’ He told me that. Well, little did I know that during that same time they were making the poisons that were going to eventually kill us. At the end of the program, I am going to play an open letter I wrote to President Bush. He lives in Houston, as do all of the players in what you are about to hear tonight. They all reside in Houston…..”