New vets showing Gulf War Illness: Well DUH!
From the Jan 24, 2013 issue of USA Today:
“WASHINGTON — Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be suffering from the 20-year-old set of symptoms known as Gulf War Illness, according to a new report released Wednesday by the federal Institute of Medicine.
” ‘Preliminary data suggest that (chronic multisymptom illness) is occurring in veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well,’ the report says.
“This may be the first time that the symptoms suffered by veterans of the 1991 Gulf War have been linked to veterans of the current wars, which started in 2001 and 2003, said Paul Rieckhoff, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.”
SECRET DRUG TESTS ONE CAUSE?
I say “well duh!” because my book, Perfect Killer, is wrapped around a well-researched, investigative core of non-fiction that indicates that at least one of the forms of Gulf War syndrome may come from secret tests of drugs on military personnel designed to turn them into perfect killers by removing any anxiety over killing.
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS CONFIRM PROGRAM EXISTENCE
These government documents from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, confirm that the program existed.
TOP EXPERT BELIEVES SECRET TESTS RESPONSIBLE
Dr. Richard Gabriel — professor at the U.S. Army War College, a retired Army Colonel and former intelligence officer, the author of more than 30 books and former consultant to the Department of Combat Psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center — believes there are indications that such a drug may have been tested on some American troops in the First Gulf War and could be responsible for a variation of Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Gabriel told me that after he exposed the program at Walter Reed, they aid they had ended the program, but in reality probably went underground.
GULF WAR ILLNESS NOT SURPRISING IN NEW VETS
So, if secret drug tests are partly responsible, it’s not at all surprising that Gulf War illnesses would be cropping up in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You may want to read Dr. Richard Gabriel’s Afterword that he wrote for Perfect Killer.
