More Links on the the Khamisiyah incident are below. Longtime readers of my weblog know the deal, but for the benefit of new readers, the Khamisiyah incident occured when the U.S. Army stupidly blew up a chemical weapons dump in 1991 exposing the deployment force to sarin, cyclosarin and other nasty toxins. To add insult to injury, DoD lied about it for 10 years while vets grew sicker and many died. By the way, the current VP was Secretary of Defense when this cover-up started.
350,000 US Troops Exposed to Sarin in 1991 Blast
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=748
Gulf War Gas Exposure Likely, Investigators say
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=749
GAO Triples Estimates of Gulf War Fallout
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=750
Legion Calls for Common Sense in Gulf Illness Compensation
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=751
Links courtesy of Veterans for Common Sense.
It’s reprehensible to express one’s opposition to US policy by harrassing serving military personnel, and it’s triply reprehensible to do so to their kids.
That said, I have to wonder whether it’s wise to trust anything written by Robert Stacy McCain, with his long and well-documented history as a neo-Confederate extremist and online far-right provocateur. The fact that he holds a senior position at the Washington Times has been much commented on in the weblog world.
Stopped clocks and all that. But the first thing I noticed about the story was his byline.
7/4/2003 10:39:00