the myths of Military Opportunism

[joanna bujes]

At 05:42 AM 11/12/2002 -0500, marta wrote:
>Let's add that soldiers also sign up and are experimented on by the
>DOD. Tens of thousands died not in the battlefield but after the Gulf
>War from exposure to depleted uranium and other harmful substances,
>delivered courtesy of Uncle Sam. Surely the military knew its weapons
>were tipped with harmful materials yet did not train the soldiers not
>to touch enemy tanks or other expoded materials. Downwind, well too
>bad. So now they know, the gulf War syndrome has shown them exactly
>what those chemicals can do. KPFK reported that 20,000 soldiers died
>of various conditions after the Gulf War.  I have yet to see the
>Pentagon call those casualties or collateral damage.  It is as if it
>never happened as far as they and most Americans are aware. The Gulf
>war was a success because of the "low" number of casualties.  Our
>soldiers died here at home trying to get medical care for their
>illnesses.  That is the war of the future.

Right on.

Joanna