Posted on 11/06/2014 4:27:58 PM PST by Theoria
More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer adequate tracking and treatment to those who may have been injured, defense officials say.
The Pentagon’s disclosure abruptly changed the scale and potential costs of the United States’ encounters with abandoned chemical weapons during the occupation of Iraq, episodes the military had for more than a decade kept from view.
This previously untold chapter of the occupation became public after an investigation by The New York Times revealed last month that while troops did not find an active weapons of mass destruction program, they did encounter degraded chemical weapons from the 1980s that had been hidden in caches or used in makeshift bombs.
The Times initially disclosed 17 cases of American service members who were injured by sarin or sulfur mustard agent. And since the report was published last month, more service members have come forward, pushing the number who were exposed to chemical agents to more than 25. But an internal review of Pentagon records ordered by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has now uncovered that hundreds of troops told the military they believe they were exposed, officials said.
The new and larger tally of potential cases suggests that there were more encounters with chemical weapons than the United States has acknowledged and that other people — including foreign soldiers, private contractors and Iraqi troops and civilians — may also have been at risk.
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And yet, Rove DEMANDED Pres. Bush cover this up.
For what?
For whom?
Secondly, the DoD let these members down again.
Inpossible.
Cheaper than chimps....
Pres. Bush was humiliated by these LIES.
American troops were not supported during this
because of these LIES.
WHAT GOOD WERE THE LIES BY ROVE except to help al Qaeda
and terrorists?
Likely American companies produced the stuff.
There was a leak in my home state where mustard gas injured a bunch of workers. The company, which had a very viable defense of workers comp, instead paid of MILLIONS to shut the cases down quickly.
The people in charge are the ones behind the ones we think that are in charge and they are running the show regardless what sock puppet is in office.
/s
What is the NYT up to?
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