http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gulfwar/ en-us Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:02:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149465/posts It's been a long time coming for veterans whose health complaints have been met with skepticism, but a federal panel has determined that Gulf War syndrome is not only real, it is tied to two causes: exposure to pyridostigmine bromide and certain pesticides during the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War. Members of the federal Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses that wrote a 450+ page report also called for research efforts to shift away from establishing the existence of a Gulf War syndrome to focus on treatment and diagnostic tests. “There's no way to say that [Gulf War illness]... Family Practice News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149465/posts#comment Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:02:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133746/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A report released Monday concluded that "Gulf War Syndrome" is a legitimate condition suffered by more than 175,000 U.S. war veterans who were exposed to chemical toxins in the 1991 Gulf War. Yahoo news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133746/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031915/posts Last week my husband and I were fortunate enough to spend some time with former President George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Bush in Kennebunkport, ME. The first evening, a group of us gathered at Walker's Point, the Bush family compound that sits on a rocky outcrop on the Maine coast. As former President Bush showed us around, I was struck by how many times this man had contributed to the nation, in position after position, crisis after crisis. Yet many, even those in his own party, have tended to overlook his extraordinary accomplishments. After drinks at the Bush home,... FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031915/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:11:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010454/posts PHOENIX - Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict. At issue was a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver. "My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East," McCain... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010454/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 23:01:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971202/posts THIS WEBSITE has photos from Gulf War I in which Saddam Hussein set Kuwait oil wells on fire as his military was removed. DFU NOTE: As we watch the battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, we have been given some hints at what Hillary has planned. Behind the scenes, the Clintons and their surrogates are attempting to negotiate with, bribe, and threaten Super Delegates. Hillary has been working on this presidential race for a couple decades. She is not going away quietly. As did Saddam Hussein, she is prepared to "burn the oil wells." She is not going... sohoblues dot com gulf war web http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971202/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:58:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951732/posts Israel planned 1991 strike on NKorea-Syria ship: report Wed Jan 9, 2:47 AM ET Israeli agents prepared to strike a ship suspected of smuggling missiles from North Korea to Syria in 1991 but cancelled it at the 11th hour under US pressure, a Japanese newspaper reported Wednesday. Undercover agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency secretly attached a guidance system for an airstrike on a cargo vessel believed to be carrying 23 short-range Scud missiles to Syria, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. The Yomiuri, reporting from Jerusalem, said it spoke to one of the agents involved in the operation, whose name was... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951732/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:15:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875489/posts KUWAIT CITY, Aug. 2, 2007 – Kuwaiti air force Col. Sulaiman M. al-Otaibi remembers all too well the “dark day” his country faced 17 years ago today, when 100,000 Iraqi troops stormed across the border here, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Memories of Aug. 2, 1990, are still fresh for him and his fellow Kuwaitis as they recall four of Saddam Hussein’s elite Republican Guard divisions and Iraqi army special forces units pushing into Kuwait City. They quickly overran Kuwait’s outnumbered forces, attacked the royal residence, Dasman Palace, and began a brutal six-month occupation. Six days later, Saddam... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875489/posts#comment Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:42:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1769374/posts This year, as every year on January 17, I remember this was the date that LCDR Michael Scott Speicher disappeared in Iraq. That was in 1991, so it has been 16 years now since his F-16 Hornet went down. Let us never forget an American hero. He, nor any other POW/MIA, should be left behind. Friends Working to Free Scott Speicher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1769374/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:40:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761072/posts He drew pictures of himself with angel wings. He left a set of his dog tags on a nightstand in my Manhattan apartment. He bought a tiny blue sweat suit for our baby to wear home from the hospital. “Follow your heart,” Charles M. King wrote in a 200-page journal for his son, Jordan, whom he first held this fall just weeks before he died in Iraq. The United States has reached another grim milestone in the war in Iraq: 3,000 military deaths. The Times’s Dana Canedy, whose fiancé was killed in Iraq, is taking questions from readers. Her responses... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761072/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jan 2007 00:24:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708715/posts The ability of U.S. ground troops to safely navigate the gauntlet of the urban battlefield has been greatly enhanced through the development of the VeraTech Aero "Phantom Sentinel" line of Virtually Invisible VTOL UAV Surveillance platforms. The Phantom Series single blade rotorcraft has the ability to deliver close up, real time video intelligence within 75 feet of nearly any event and remain virtually undetectable to the human eye. Based on the concept of persistence of vision, the Phantom's single rotor blade has a center of rotation outside of the UAVs' physical fuselage. As the aircraft spins, it disappears from... VeraTech Aero Corporation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708715/posts#comment Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:10:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/689282/posts To read entire article click text: In a court hearing in San Diego, Kenneth Breen, an assistant United States attorney, said the adviser, Amr Ibrahim Elgindy, tried to sell $300,000 in stock on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and told his broker that the stock market would soon plunge. "Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had preknowledge of Sept. 11, and rather than report it he attempted to profit from it," Mr. Breen said. So, what did Mr. Elgindy, who was trying to sell $300k in stock, tell the financial world the day after 9-11?  Read it for yourself! Immediate release InsideTruth.com... Googled http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/689282/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2002 03:59:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704030/posts An al-Qaida-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed," as protesters raged across the Muslim world to demand more of an apology from the pontiff for his remarks about Islam and violence. The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified. The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross"... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704030/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:54:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700389/posts VA-funded report unable to find evidence of complex of symptomsAssociated Press WASHINGTON - There is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome, even though U.S. and foreign veterans of the war report more symptoms of illness than do soldiers who didn't serve there, a federally funded study concludes. U.S. and foreign veterans of the Gulf War do suffer from an array of very real problems, according to the Veterans Administration-sponsored report released Tuesday. Yet there is no one complex of symptoms to suggest those veterans — nearly 30 percent of all those who served — suffered or still suffer from... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700389/posts#comment Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:39:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520262/posts Just in. I am looking at a picture of the WTC with smoke pouring out of the western tower. Looks like a huge amount of damage. Debris raining down on people in the street. NewYork1 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/520262/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:56:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699177/posts Here are some links from the FR archives in observance of the fifth anniversary of 9/11/2001 - Threads list of several breaking news items - Latest Articles The first post reporting the attacks by OldEconomyBuyer - World Trade Center Posted on the first anniversary - Associated Press newswire - September 11, 2001 - Chronology of news alerts, bulletins and flashes Free Republic Archives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699177/posts#comment Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:34:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676945/posts Heated denials from news agencies accused of staging images with doctored photographs of dead children in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, cannot rest on staged images from the war arena never having happened before. "The world was shocked to find out that a PR firm, Hill and Knowlton had manufactured the `incubator babies’ incident in Kuwait, which precipitated the Gulf War; Iraqi soldiers ripping Kuwait babies out of incubators in a genocidal fashion. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676945/posts#comment Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:39:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676752/posts WASHINGTON, August 2, 2006 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld used today, the 16th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, as an opportunity to assess progress that’s taken place in Iraq and the threat extremists continue to impose on free people. Rumsfeld cited the string of events Saddam provoked in 1990. “Saddam Hussein’s forces invaded Kuwait, provoking a crisis that led to Iraqi attacks on Israel and threats to Saudi Arabia and to other nations in the region,” he told Pentagon reporters. In contrast, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- a man Rumsfeld noted spent some 25 years opposing... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676752/posts#comment Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:50:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676723/posts It was a warm day, August 2nd in 1990 when I turned on the news and heard the stomach clutching news that Iraq was invading Kuwait. My heart beat accelerated as I realized that my son's Bravo Co. of the 82nd Airborne at Ft. Bragg was "on mission" for the month of August. This meant that his company would be the first to go if the US offered military assistance for the crisis. All day and evening my husband, a Korean combat veteran, and I seesawed between listening to the news and trying to reach our son's barracks phone. (Remember,... self (vanity) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676723/posts#comment Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:03:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651657/posts Liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas ("Daily Kos") appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources this morning (Sunday, June 18, 2006). Host Howard Kurtz asked Kos about a comment he made on his blog a couple of years back. In April 2004, in a thread about the coverage of the brutal murders of four Americans in Fallujah, Kos posted a comment in which he wrote (bold mine), "I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for... TheMediaReport.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651657/posts#comment Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643082/posts Perhaps you’ve heard of the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young efforts to allocate $315 million in federal funds to connect one tiny island in his state with an even tinier island of only 50 people. Well, he’s now been joined by Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. She has allotted a massive $75 million from taxpayers into the Veteran’s Administration (VA) budget, with the dictate that every cent go to a Texas advocacy scientist and his institution to study a non-existent illness. The alleged illness is Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), and the beneficiary of Hutchinson’s taxpayer-funded... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643082/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jun 2006 07:28:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609610/posts Translated Text of an Iraqi Document Concerning Kuwait POWs As the opening date of Operation Freedom neared, Qusai Saddam Hussein-one of Saddam’s bloodthirsty sons, made arrangements to move captured Kuwaiti prisoners into critical locations, to serve as “human shields”. There were 448 Kuwaitis, captured during the First Gulf War ,when Saddam made his infamous incursion into Kuwait. By the terms of the UN Cease Fire agreements –signed by Iraq on 3/03/91- all Kuwaitis were supposed to have been freed and repatriated without delay. Clearly,this never happened ; and sadly,the ultimate fate of these 448 helpless captives is unknown. CMPC-2003-012666 Republican... The Morning Paper http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609610/posts#comment Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:45:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596144/posts BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS MORRIS COUNTY, NEW JERSEY RESOLUTION NO. 49 ADOPTED: March 8, 2006 WHEREAS, an advanced placement government class at Parsippany High School conducted a mock trial (the “Mock Trial”) and named George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, as a defendant; and, WHEREAS, during this Mock Trial, President Bush was falsely accused of “crimes against civilian populations,” and the “inhumane treatment of prisoners,” and WHEREAS, these charges amounted to accusing the President of the United States of being a war criminal, and WHEREAS, this Mock Trial was conducted while the United States was in... Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596144/posts#comment Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:44:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585983/posts ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 26, 2006 – In a biting cold wind, families and dignitaries gathered at Arlington National Cemetery here today to remember American servicemembers who gave their lives in operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Provide Comfort. Officials conducted the ceremony at section 60 of the cemetery, where most of those killed in the Persian Gulf War are buried. The Persian Gulf War ended with the liberation of Kuwait on Feb. 28, 1991. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, remembered the hundreds of U.S. servicemembers killed in the conflict. He said American servicemembers remember... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585983/posts#comment Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574574/posts Overview The Center For Disease Control 1999 Gulf War Syndrome Research Summary Report (click here to view and scroll to pdf page 10, or click here to for more details), states that animals fed the same drugs that were given to their 1992 Gulf War Personnel developed health problems that were significantly worse statistically than the sum of the incidence of symptoms when each pill was taken individually. The military personnel were given many pesticides, anti-viral, anti-chemical warfare, anti-biological warfare, and anti-parasite agents. These drugs were originally approved in studies that showed them to be safe when taken individually. In... Beat CFS and FMS .org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574574/posts#comment Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:04:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886893/posts <p>BASRA, Iraq (AP) - Ali Hassan al-Majid, dubbed ``Chemical Ali'' by opponents of the Iraqi regime for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds, has been found dead, a British officer said Monday.</p> <p>Maj. Andrew Jackson of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment told The Associated Press that his superiors had confirmed the death of the man who is also President Saddam Hussein's first cousin.</p> <p>Jackson said the body was found along with that of his bodyguard and the head of Iraqi intelligence services in Basra.</p> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886893/posts#comment Mon, 7 Apr 2003 07:17:00 GMT