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Iraqi Civilian Deaths ... caused by Bush's unprovoked war

 

U.S. Army probes illness in Iraq
(CNN, August 5, 2003)
The U.S. Army has activated two teams of doctors and scientists to determine the cause of about 100 cases of pneumonia among troops in Iraq and other parts of the Persian Gulf since March 1. . . . Two service members have died, and 15 were so sick that they required ventilators to help them breathe, the Army said. Three remain hospitalized, and 10 have recovered, the Army said. All of those requiring ventilators were soldiers except for one Marine. . . . Besides Iraq, cases also occurred in Uzbekistan, Kuwait and Qatar. . . . The causes of the two deaths have not been determined. . . . "Currently, we have identified no infectious agent common to all of the cases," an Army statement said, adding that no evidence exists that the cases were caused by exposure to chemical or biological weapons, SARS or environmental toxins.

[Comment: Just like the veterans who were poisoned by Agent Orange in Viet Nam, the women and men of the US armed forces are once again being poisoned by their own weapons. The death and severe illness toll from the first Gulf War is already staggering, and yet the US military insists that nothing is wrong. Well, something is wrong, and what is wrong is the attitude of those running the Pentagon. Their attitude seems to be that our troops are expendable, just like the "collateral damage" of the thousands of innocent civilians the US is also killing in order to secure the Iraqi oil fields for the Bush family and their friends.]

posted by Lorenzo 11:33 AM