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Origionally posted by Felix the Assassin The caption was a *New* relesae about the 'CAUSE' of the effects and the *acknoledgement* (gasp) of all of the NON FDA approved pills we took, the chemical weapons stockpile that we destroyed, and other factors.

Well, one of the theories that I haven't seen a whole lot of goes as follows. AFAIK US troops were issued a number of emergency treatments, including some very powerful (injected) chemicals, incase they were exposed to chemical weapons. During the course of the war they were exposed to a situation that was unhealthy to say the least. The desert isn't a fun place to be in, and it was full of nasty things like oil fires, fighting, blowing up bunkers, and possible exposure to real chemical weapons, and so on. This tended to make soldiers feel like crap, and a fair amount of the time with problems that were similar to nerve gas exposure. The result were that soldiers would then use those powerful drugs, and being Americans they tended to be believers in the theory that "if one is good, two must be better" they would take more then they should (The fact that the first injection would make someone feel even worse probably didn't help). The drugs do a number of things that screw with the nervous system and that the increased dose was capable of doing substantial damage.

Now, I don't know how much of this is really true, but given the biology behind the chemicals I could easily see it being true.

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: quote: So was asbestos...

As someone who deals with asbestos on a daily basis, I'd say your comparrison is off by a long way. [/QUOTE]Well, as someone who deals with asbestos on a daily basis I have to ask why you say that because I think it is a pretty good one.