"John H" wrote in message
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:36:41 -0400, "P.Fritz"
wrote:


"Jeff Rigby" wrote in message
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"Harry.Krause" wrote in message
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Online at: http://politicalaffairs.net/article/...iew/1213/1/99/


Dying in Iraq is not a career choice

By Bud Deraps

6-01-05,9:44am

Completely unknown to these young people, and never discussed by
recruiters, is the fact that of the 580,000 U.S. troops who served in
the
six-week 1991 Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead, and by the year 2000,
325,000 were on permanent medical disability from the depleted uranium
weaponry and the many other toxic and horrifying conditions they were
exposed to.

Wrong, according to The New England Medical journal in a study, the
veterans were healthier than the US general population of the same age
with a LOWER mortality rate than expected.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/335/20/1498

There was a higher accident rate of 9/1000 than the national average.
Returning veterans that experienced stressful combat conditions have a
higher accident rate. One may speculate that they hold live cheaper
having seen so much death. They take fewer precautions and don't think
that falling from a ladder can kill one as much as a bullet fired by the
enemy, the ladder isn't trying to kill me right?

Also unknown is the fact that over half of those who served in that war
are now parenting children who are born with some birth defect when
previous children were born normal.

Wrong, there is a 2 times increase in infant birth defects as reported
by
vets. So if there are 3/1000 in the general population there are 6/1000
among gulf war vets. This fact is not documented by an independant
study
and may be much lower.



http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/deploy...ts/DoD1C.shtml




The person who wrote this article is either an idiot who can't read or a
lier who has no regard for the truth.

Most likely both.........but it is not surprising harry would use such a
source

Great minds...etc. Should have read your post before writing mine.

You don't even have to have a great mind to see through the crap coming from
harry......only a moron would believe that trash....................which
explains kevin :-)


--
John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to
resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)

Jeff Rigby wrote:
The person who wrote this article is either an idiot who can't read or a
lier who has no regard for the truth.


You mean like a "lier" who would say 'my social security plan should
stand on it's own merits' while spending hundreds of thousands of
dollars under the table to wage a publicity campaign to drum up public
support for his social security plan? A person who would say 'we *will*
get Osama Bin Laden, the man responsible for the worst terrorist attack
in history' and then pull thousands of troops away from the hunt for Bin
Laden so as to stage an invasion of another country that had zero
involvement in anti-US terrorism? You mean like a person that would tout
his plan to preserve the environment while dismantling the EPA?

I could go on, but I bet you've got the idea.

DSK

"DSK" wrote in message
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Jeff Rigby wrote:
The person who wrote this article is either an idiot who can't read or a
lier who has no regard for the truth.


You mean like a "lier" who would say 'my social security plan should stand
on it's own merits' while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars under
the table to wage a publicity campaign to drum up public support for his
social security plan? A person who would say 'we *will* get Osama Bin
Laden, the man responsible for the worst terrorist attack in history' and
then pull thousands of troops away from the hunt for Bin Laden so as to
stage an invasion of another country that had zero involvement in anti-US
terrorism? You mean like a person that would tout his plan to preserve the
environment while dismantling the EPA?

I could go on, but I bet you've got the idea.

DSK

My statement is an objective questioning of facts used in an argument. The
facts as stated in his argument were WRONG, in fact SO WRONG as to make him
appear to be an idiot or a lier

Your statement while I disagree with it and find it somewhat biased is not
wrong. It quotes no facts in error.

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:16:03 -0400, "Jeff Rigby" wrote:


"Harry.Krause" wrote in message
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Online at: http://politicalaffairs.net/article/...iew/1213/1/99/


Dying in Iraq is not a career choice

By Bud Deraps

6-01-05,9:44am

Completely unknown to these young people, and never discussed by
recruiters, is the fact that of the 580,000 U.S. troops who served in the
six-week 1991 Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead, and by the year 2000, 325,000
were on permanent medical disability from the depleted uranium weaponry
and the many other toxic and horrifying conditions they were exposed to.

Wrong, according to The New England Medical journal in a study, the veterans
were healthier than the US general population of the same age with a LOWER
mortality rate than expected.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/335/20/1498

There was a higher accident rate of 9/1000 than the national average.
Returning veterans that experienced stressful combat conditions have a
higher accident rate. One may speculate that they hold live cheaper having
seen so much death. They take fewer precautions and don't think that
falling from a ladder can kill one as much as a bullet fired by the enemy,
the ladder isn't trying to kill me right?

Also unknown is the fact that over half of those who served in that war
are now parenting children who are born with some birth defect when
previous children were born normal.

Wrong, there is a 2 times increase in infant birth defects as reported by
vets. So if there are 3/1000 in the general population there are 6/1000
among gulf war vets. This fact is not documented by an independant study
and may be much lower.

The person who wrote this article is either an idiot who can't read or a
lier who has no regard for the truth.



Most probably both. But Harry's cut'n'paste is living proof that some folks will
believe anything, as long as it's anti-military.

--
John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)