Fw: Toxin Induced Gulf War Illnesses Have a Lot to Teach Civilian Populations

[Guest guest]

(If you are of the persuasion that peace is part of a " political " agenda and

that people who advocate it should be killed - please don't read this)

When I received the e-mail below, I realized, at the rate Gulf and Vietnam

War vets are dying off, the DOD and Monsanto won't have to worry much longer

about paying disability to these people or getting sued. Check your local

obits - if the person is in their 40's or 50's chanced are they list

military service. Another decade and these vets will almost all be 6 feet

under and just a bad dream. Of course, it helps to have the press be part

of the problem, by being complicit and refusing to investigate - knowing

where the trail might lead and afraid to go down it. Remember, we are the

ones who sold the precursors to make these neurotoxins to Iraq with

instructions on how to manufacture them into weapons - so how can we " fess

up " now and have the world point their fingers at us for being

esponsible - just when we plan to attack Iraq and keep the war momentum

(and Bush's " approval rating " ) going. Can't do it - people might start

asking embarrassing questions and want to have some very prominent people

tried as war criminals and traitors.

As waves of toxic mold infestations spread throughout the world - virtually

unnoticed by the mainstream press and denied by public health agencies - you

have to consider how this can happen in a " free " society - a society who

allegedly has the best public health system in the world. Now mysterious

" rashes " are showing up in schools in at least 7 states and no one seems to

know why. One administrator even stooped to calling it psychosomatic -

yeah, right! Is it a " virus " or is it something more insidious? Remember

the discussion we had a few years back about how easy it would be for those

who hate us (or who want to extract their revenge against our country for

the unsavory and unreported actions of our military throughout the world on

behalf of international corporations) to travel throughout our country

" johnny appleseeding " mycotoxins into the intake air vents of our public

buildings (like schools) courthouses, city halls - totally undetected. They

wouldn't even need to rent crop dusters to do this. Where better to strike

at our hearts than by poisoning our children?

A while back, I made an unthinking, insensitive remark about Gulf War vets.

One of our members who had been there and came home sick responded - not by

chiding or criticizing me - but by gently urging me to use my mind - to

investigate and conduct my own research into the truth of what happened over

there. Since then, I've learned many things - things about my country I,m

not proud of and that I wish weren't true...but are. When you find out

things like military medical files that go mysteriously " missing " and

research money that is doled out in a big show only to those who are heading

in the wrong direction (or no direction at all) - it makes your heart hurt.

War has consequences - physical, mental, spiritual, environmental - there is

nothing it doesn't affect. Because of the increasing sophistication of

chemical and biological weaponry, the consequences of war can be extremely

gruesome - a fact I learned the hard way when I was sent a link to

photographs of Iraqi babies - babies whose very DNA - is paying the

ultimate price. Life magazine covered the Gulf War children a while back -

but they didn't show pictures about all the babies that are born deformed.

This site is not for the squeamish, but if you are inclined to start beating

the drums of war, you really need to have all the facts first.

http://www.wakefieldcam.freeserve.co.uk/extremedeformities.htm

As for me, I've learned this lesson the hard way and a prayer for peace

isn't far from my lips. As a good friend wisely said, " once you figure out

there is no " them, " no " our side, " no " bad guys " - just people like you all

over the world trying to live their lives and raise their families - people

being shamefully manipulated by powerful people and global economic

interests who profit from our living in fear and hatred of one another, you

start being attuned to the important mission of your life - peace, love,

compassion and spiritual growth. You start tuning out the messages of the

manipulators who want us to hate one another and start asking questions like

" who profits from this activity? " Questions like why does the epidemic of

foal deaths in Kentucky (which is probably an outcome of mycotoxin

poisoning) get more news coverage than toxic mold infestations in our

school? The more we think - the more dangerous we become to those in

Washington who profit from these wars.

Sorry to stay on my soapbox for so long.

Barbara

----- Original Message -----

From: " Hotz " <ahotz@...>

<ahotz@...>

Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:57 PM

Subject: Toxin Induced Gulf War Illnesses Have a Lot to Teach Civilian

Populations

: It has long been intriguing to independent scientists studying

: Gulf War Illnesses, to note that French soldiers serving in that war

: did not develop a high number of unexplained illnesses as did British

: and American soldiers. It has also been intriguing that the French

: documented that organophosphate pesticides were not sprayed in

: their camps and they did not receive anthrax vaccines nor the

: experimental anti-nerve gas pill--pyridistimine bromide (PB).

: PB contains the same carbamate chemicals that are in carbamate

: pesticides. PB acts upon the nervous system in much the same

: way that organophosphate pesticides work.

:

: While the emphasis in this article is on the anthrax vaccine because

: of the timing of recent security threats--other important exposure

: issues should not be ignored.

:

: Gulf War veterans' illnessess are the same as those in civilian

: populations that have a history of toxic exposures, especially

: to chronic, low-level exposures to pesticides and solvents.

:

: A. Hotz

: ***************************************************************

:

: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/13/world/world3.html

:

: VACCINE-FREE FRENCH HEALTHIER THAN ALLIES

:

: London: French forces who served in the Gulf War were not given the

: vaccines and anti-biological warfare measures administered to British and

United

: States veterans and are free from the illnesses that beset their allies,

the US

: Congress has been told.

:

: Evidence to the subcommittee on national security shows the effort made

: to protect service personnel from biological and chemical weapons is most

: likely to have damaged their health.

:

: The French were given protective suits but not the cocktail of drugs

that

: British and US service-men took. Only 140 of the 25,000 French Gulf

veterans have reported illnesses related to Gulf War service, compared with

more

: than 5000 of the 52,000 British troops deployed, and 137,862 of the

697,000 US

: service personnel.

:

: Unlike US and British forces, the French used bottled water, and did

not

: use organophosphorous pesticides, now known to be very dangerous to

humans.

:

: Fourteen inoculations were given to British troops. In addition their

: immune systems were tested with the first-ever issue of nerve agent

: pre-treatment tablets as an antidote against chemical weapons, and the use

of

: pesticides, including organophosphates to prevent fly-borne diseases. US

and British

: forces were in total exposed to 33 toxins.

:

: Among those taking part in the committee hearings was Lord of

: Manchester, a campaigner for the Gulf War veterans, who gave evidence on

the possible

: causes.

:

: " While accepting that these measures were taken in what were thought to

: be their best interests, British Gulf veterans who are now in broken

health - many

: with severely debilitating but still undiagnosed illnesses - trace some of

: their problems to the [british] Ministry of Defence's efforts to protect

them. "

:

: The Guardian