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[Bucko]

Sorry, but I don't buy it, nor does most top health authorities. I spent 7 months in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, ate the dirt, sucked down the oil well fire smoke, had the anthrax shot, and was in one of the units exposed to nerve agents (that weren't there officially). Desert Storm syndrome is wishful/fantasy thinking IMHO. Take a city of 600,000 people. You have a set percentage with cancer, leukemia, arthritis, CFS, asthma, etc. There is no *valid* data that I am aware of, i.e., published in a major medical journal, to show that the incidence of disease in Persian Gulf deployees is any higher than in the normal populace. I have been through not one, not two, but three Desert Storm evaluations -- all have been totally normal, and I had more exposure than 90% of the troops there. I don't buy Desert Storm Syndrome for one minute. But, you are entitled to your own opinion, of course, and I respect that. However, no amount of debating will settle anything.

Bucko