Subject: 73,846 GULF WAR DEAD: Department of Veterans Affairs Reports
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:29:26 -0500

The national outrage should be thunderously loud and widespread with this.   Here, after my response of outrage is the national lowly epitaph to these wasted lives.   To the wasted pawns in a dirty game of geopolitical intrigue, wasted by a government and a nation that winked, who rode roughshod over them for NOTHING. 

 The greater majority of these lives so very young, cut cruelly and criminally short due to the crimes of an arrogant imperial U.S. government and its "must follow any orders" military.   Dead from illnesses gotten of depleted uranium poisoning and experimental vaccines liberally thrown into the deadly mix, with myriads of secondary illnesses as side effects and also mental torture and indigency. 

73,846 DEAD SINCE 1990.  This is absolutely bloody horrendous and not a squeak in the nation about it.   What have we become?  Like drones, living one day to the next, seeing, reading of one atrocity after another, while the very future of this nation dies--its hopes, its dreams, carried to the grave by its young.

  One has to wonder how many thousands more must die in this recent bloody mess in Iraq since 2001, before the nation will rise in serious protest all over, as they did in the Vietnam protests.   Just as dreadful and importantly, how many millions of hapless Iraqis have died since that first attack against their nation and sanctions for 13 years before then.  We recall the reports of deadly  poisons leaked from warehouses due to U.S. bombing.  DU weapons were used against Iraqis then.  Their water was poisoned, according to a report of an American inspector who said the US government must be prosecuted for that war crime.  How many millions have died so far since 2001.  Over a million reported.  But how many more, really.  The truth is, not many at all care in this nation how many Iraqis died, where their own die by the tens of thousands, in total silence.   

    The final 64,000 dollar question is this: How many events of extreme  tragedy and mass killings, will it take for a people once again to witness a historical replaying of how quickly a republic and its citizens' civil liberties are lost from the threat of those who would assume publicly to champion them, but in fact trample them to bits for misguided interests.    So the historical question must follow: are the American people ready for the strongman or woman who promises them a ready fix?  I think so.  After all these dead for no noble cause and many more dying in nations around the world....yup...as Dickens would put it, in their winter of discontent, I should think most Americans will be ready for a quick fix.    ac

-Source: http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdf

September 22, 2007 at 11:22:35

Department of Veterans Affairs Reports 73 Thousand U.S. Gulf War Deaths

by Clive Boustred Page 1 of 1 page(s)


More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans:
The Department of Veterans Affairs, May 2007, Gulf War Veterans Information System reports the following:

Total U.S. Military Gulf War Deaths: 73,846
– Deaths amongst Deployed: 17,847
– Deaths amongst Non-Deployed: 55,999

Total “Undiagnosed Illness” (UDX) claims: 14,874
Total number of disability claims filed: 1,620,906
- Disability Claims amongst Deployed: 407,911
- Disability Claims amongst Non-Deployed: 1,212,995

Percentage of combat troops that filed Disability Claims 36%

-Source: http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdf