What??? Toxic Chemicals are Toxic???

we support the troops for as long as it is domestically politically expedient to do so, and then who cares what happened to them, since it merely prooves that they are a bunch of whiners who just do not understand the importance of being more Anti-Anti-War, than any of that welfare queenism of serving not only on active duty, but in a real live Hostile Fire Payzone, where there are some tax advantages, but not like you can get by staying CONUS and purchasing the government of your choice at discount prices

Gulf War illness, dismissed by some as a psychosomatic disorder, is a very real illness that affects at least 25 percent of the 700,000 U.S. veterans who took part in the 1991 Gulf War.

It's likely cause was exposure to toxic chemicals that included pesticides that were often overused during the war, as well as a drug given to U.S. troops to protect them from nerve gas, a frequent weapon of choice of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

And no effective treatments have been devised for the disorder.

Those are three key conclusions of a Congressionally mandated landmark report released Monday by a federal panel of scientific experts and veterans.

"It is very clear that Gulf War illness is a real condition that was not caused by combat stress or other psychological factors," said Lea Steele, scientific director of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, which issued the report, and an associate professor at Kansas State University.
[ cf Toxic Chemicals Blamed for Gulf War Illness ]