Soldiers shouldn't be guinea pigs

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Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:35:49 EDT

 

Subject:Col. David Hackworth / Soldiers shouldn't be guinea pigs

 

 

" Let's hope that this time around a gutsy senator or congressional

representative moves out sharply to stop this abominable undercover

medical experiment

and prevent the murders of any more of our brave sons and daughters. "

 

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

 

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43747

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

 

 

Soldiers shouldn't be guinea pigs

 

 

Editor's note: Eilhys England contributed to this column.

 

By David Hackworth

 

 

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

 

The presidential commission looking into the cluelessness of U.S.

intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq recently

issued its report to

banner headlines that should cause every member of the American

military to

take a long second look at the need for – not to mention the safety of

– the

big-bucks " emergency " anthrax vaccination program still being pushed by

the

Department Of Defense. Because the acknowledgment of this disastrous

intelligence

failure rips the guts right out of DOD's rationale for a controversial

vaccination effort that was changed late last year – by a court order

now being

appealed by the Pentagon – from mandatory to voluntary.

 

Meanwhile, since 9-11 and the start of the Global War on Terror, the

only

American deaths that have occurred from any anthrax attack have been

five

civilians in the USA during the fall of 2001 from exposure to a strain

of anthrax

widely believed to have been domestically produced. But while zero

service

personnel have been killed in action from Saddam Hussein's alleged

stockpile of

anthrax and other Iraqi WMD that have mysteriously gone walkabout – or

anthrax

from any other source – six Americans have died after receiving DOD's

anthrax

vaccine!

 

The product manufacturer's insert that – at least in theory –

accompanies

every dose distributed for shooting up the troops lists the causes of

these six

unnecessary deaths as " adverse events without regard to causality " and

include:

" sudden cardiac arrest (2), myocardial infarction ... (1), aplastic

anemia

(1), suicide (1), and central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma (1). " Other

" frequently reported serious adverse events include ... leukemia,

systemic lupus ...

multiple sclerosis ... inflammatory arthritis ... immune deficiency ...

renal

failure, spontaneous abortion and liver abscess. " (The document is

posted in

all its gory glory at www.sftt.org.)

 

Gary Matsumoto, whose superb tell-all book " Vaccine A: The Covert

Government

Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GI's Are Only the First

Victims " is a must-read for those facing the potentially fatal shots –

as well as for

future care-providers for any vet survivors who unfortunately end up

suffering from the long-term effects and debilitating diseases

associated with the

vaccine – calls the DOD's program " a betrayal of the thousands of young

men and

women who signed up for military service, willing to risk their lives

in battle

only to be secretly used in medical research as guinea pigs. "

 

While, according to Matsumoto, " Key people involved in the program

declined

to give any interviews, " DOD later tried to torpedo his meticulously

researched

work by claiming that the chemical compound squalene, which he

identifies as

hazardous to animals and the probable cause of many of the adverse

human

reactions to the vaccination, was not part of the mix. And when finally

forced to

admit that the unlicensed experimental booster added to enhance the

effectiveness of the formula was in fact present, DOD lamely claimed it

was there due to

unavoidable contamination in the production process – albeit in such

low

levels that it could and should be ignored.

 

Right! One wonders how many DOD weenies ignored the " unavoidable

contamination " and signed up for the shots. Not many, I reckon, given

the lousy effects of

squalene on other critters, and considering that there were never any

credible human trials to prove its safety.

 

So where does all this leave GI Joe and Jane, who might at any moment

once

again be ordered rather than strongly encouraged to roll up their

sleeves and

submit to the series of injections?

 

One option would be to trust the same DOD types who promised it was a

slam-dunk that our troops would find masses of WMD in Iraq and play the

medical

version of Russian roulette by taking the six scary shots.

 

A second option might come down to refusing to take the vaccination and

facing charges – as thousands did before them – at a time when our

country needs

all the troops it can muster.

 

The whole stinking scandal reminds me of the treatment of malaria in

the

early days in Vietnam, when we were unknowingly experimented upon and

too many

soldiers died from meds that were worse than the malaria itself.

 

Let's hope that this time around a gutsy senator or congressional

representative moves out sharply to stop this abominable undercover

medical experiment

and prevent the murders of any more of our brave sons and daughters.

 

 

 

 

Col. David H. Hackworth, author of his new best-selling " Steel My

Soldiers'

Hearts, " " Price of Honor " and " About Face, " has seen duty or reported

as a

sailor, soldier and military correspondent in nearly a dozen wars and

conflicts –

from the end of World War II to the recent fights against international

terrorism.