2007-11-15 08:28:57 · 8 answers · asked by Run Lola Run 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Saddam used serin gas. Also the soldiers were vaccinated against anthrax with an experimental vaccine.
2007-11-15 08:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
there have been many...
Gulf war syndrome refers to a varied grouping of symptoms most likely, (in the case of the gulf war), related to chem weapons exposure, (cause they kept torching them as they found them but not telling the troops downwind), the experimental vaccine for anthrax that all GIs were required to take, and DU inhalation.
Chem weapons exposure is incredibly unlikely this time but DU inhalation and anthrax vaccine are still in full effect. Just like the fact that there have been 10 times as many casualties as deaths of soldiers in this war, (or over 40K wounded vets at this point and still counting), the rate of illness is not being covered...
2007-11-15 16:51:50 · answer #2 · answered by vegan_geek 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sadam burned many oil wells in the first Gulf War..and that contributed to the syndrome. That has not occured during this conflict.
2007-11-15 16:40:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We know more about it now and have given it a more proper name.
Post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
And plenty do have it.. but we are better at picking up on the signs and have better treatments for it now.
LOL, I studied this in Abnormal Psych. I'm right, I promise you that. Yay for thumbs down lol
2007-11-15 16:33:48 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
At least one in four are returning with PTSD (same thing as GWS)-that's only the reported cases.
2007-11-15 16:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by golfer7 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
More vets from Iraq kill themselves than any other vets...we're seeing signs of something. We just haven't coined a term for it.
2007-11-15 16:38:11 · answer #6 · answered by Lotus Phoenix 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
as far as I know its caused by depleted uranium munitions and not shots or nerve gas.
2007-11-15 16:51:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been!
2007-11-15 16:33:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋