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!)