Posted on Apr 27, 2022
Nine respiratory cancers added to list of illnesses presumed caused by burn pit smoke
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SFC William Linnell
I guess they figured to address this ASAP since the millions of service members aren't going to die off as quickly as Vietnam and DS/S vets.
My dad keeps getting skin cancer, which the VA Dr's acknowledge is from Agent Orange but our government doesn't list this one cancer in it's long list of cancers. I suppose I should be grateful that they are taking care of it each time it rears its ugly head.
Then the Desert Shield/Storm/Security vets with the chemical alarms going off before the ground war kicked off, and was told its just fine particles of sand that's setting them off. Genius response. Then the 6 weeks + of living under the oil fires smoke. Coughing up black shit, blowing it out your nose and rubbing it out of your eyes. Settling in your hair and skin. It's Harmless.
I am grateful that they are finally stepping up and taking responsibility for the burn pits. I really hope that our government does right by our Veterans. Let's see what they do with the respiratory issues from breathing in the smoke of the Afghan fires that they cooked with, kept warm with, shit packed with straw. Which during the day was ok until the sun started to settle and all that smoke settled near ground level all night while one breathed it in until the sun came up the next day and it would rise for the start of a new day. Then the fine particles of the plethora of feces in the dust we breathed in driving on the back roads.
My dad keeps getting skin cancer, which the VA Dr's acknowledge is from Agent Orange but our government doesn't list this one cancer in it's long list of cancers. I suppose I should be grateful that they are taking care of it each time it rears its ugly head.
Then the Desert Shield/Storm/Security vets with the chemical alarms going off before the ground war kicked off, and was told its just fine particles of sand that's setting them off. Genius response. Then the 6 weeks + of living under the oil fires smoke. Coughing up black shit, blowing it out your nose and rubbing it out of your eyes. Settling in your hair and skin. It's Harmless.
I am grateful that they are finally stepping up and taking responsibility for the burn pits. I really hope that our government does right by our Veterans. Let's see what they do with the respiratory issues from breathing in the smoke of the Afghan fires that they cooked with, kept warm with, shit packed with straw. Which during the day was ok until the sun started to settle and all that smoke settled near ground level all night while one breathed it in until the sun came up the next day and it would rise for the start of a new day. Then the fine particles of the plethora of feces in the dust we breathed in driving on the back roads.
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Do any of you know what ever was concluded about Saddam's chemical weapons that were not found in the quantity that it was suspected/?known? that he had? I was told by a member of the High Command staff that the Iraqi Field Commanders had been given permission/orders to use them; but they chose not to because Pres Bush (HW not W) had threatened to escalate in kind. And our devasting Air War convinced those Iraqi leaders in the field not to use them. I've heard several theories: 1) they were buried in the vast desert and in the confusion of the devastion coalition forces the location records were either lost or destroyed. 2) Some of them went into the burn pits and are contributing part of the health issues Gulf War veterans have to deal with as seen in the artcile above. 3) Some have theorized that some leaders absconded with them across the border into Syria and Assad used some against his dissident regions/movements in Syria.
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