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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (10285)	2/19/2003 11:12:03 AM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 25898

This is not Desert Storm. This is a Coalition of the Bribed. M2

To: jlallen who wrote (10285)	2/19/2003 11:25:28 AM
From: Just_Observing	Respond to of 25898

I remember all the dire predictions preceding Desert Storm. They were unfounded Yes, we had less than 150 dead. But a lot of our troops are paying the price even now. As is our society. Disability Claimed By More Than 25% of Gulf War Vets By Carl Jenkins Document Dated: Jun-02-2001 Disability Claimed By More Than 25% Gulf War Vets Gulf Vet Disability Claimed By More Than 183,000 Vets Payments to Vets Cost $1 Billion Annually, More Are Applying By Tom Nugent One in four of U.S. service personnel who participated in the nine-month Operation Desert Storm is now officially classified as "disabled," according to Department of Veterans Affairs figures obtained by FedBuzz. The percentage of Gulf War veterans granted disabled status -- 26 percent -- is now higher than for any modern U.S. combat experience and is two and one half times the disability rate from the 10-year-long Vietnam War, according to VA sources. VA Public Information Officer Jim Benson told FedBuzz that more than 183,000 veterans have been granted "disability status for one or more conditions" resulting from Operation Desert Storm between August of 1990 and April of 1991. Benson said that another 36,782 disability claims by Gulf War vets are now pending and are being evaluated. About 700,000 members of the U.S. Armed Forces took part in the nine-month military campaign that decided the outcome of the Gulf War. The cost of the disabilities: $1 billion annually. gulfweb.org Not to mention the pain and suffering of nearly 200,000 veterans. And the opportunity cost of their contribution to society is on the order of several billion a year. Let's say each could contribute $30,000 a year in earnings to society. That's a loss of around $6 billion a year. We will be paying for the last Gulf war for decades. By our veterans' pain and suffering. And a cost to our society of several billion a year. Even the victors lose in a war.