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Christopher Shays
American
Politician
About the author
The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#Doctors
#Expertise
Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#Community
#Troops
#Military
#Medical
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#World
#War
#Troops
#Health
#World war
There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#Question
#Soldiers
#Limits
First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#First
#Apology
We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#War
#Troops
But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#War
The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#War
First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#War
#First
#Soldiers
I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#Health
#Stress
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#War
#Cause
#Illness
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#Home
#Nature
#Business
#Health
#Soldiers
I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#People
#Soldiers
#Blood
It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#People
#Death
#Information
#Knowledge
Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#Saying
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
Christopher Shays,
American
Politician
#War
#Cause
#Illness
#Causes