The Pentagon has an exemplary record on investigating itself..not
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An example from the Gulf War, but anyone who knows some history from the Vietnam War knows the Pentagon was knee deep in cover-ups and lies then also. The only way to get any truth at all is through independent investigations.
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February 28, 1997
Military Lost Logs on Chemical Use in Gulf War, Pentagon Says
By PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON --
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In a new report on the missing logs, the Defense Department said its investigators had conducted an exhaustive search and had been able to track down only 36 pages of the estimated 200 pages of classified logs that were supposed to record any incident in which chemical or biological weapons were detected on the battlefield.
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The committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. John Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, said that
"if the Pentagon had a shred of credibility left on the Persian Gulf war illness issue, the American people would be willing to stretch their imaginations enough to believe this latest tale -- sadly, the Pentagon has squandered the trust of the American people." The gaps in the logs include the period from March 4 through March 10, 1991, when U.S. troops blew up an Iraqi ammunition depot that is now thought to have contained tons of nerve gas and other chemical weapons.
The 36 pages, which had previously been made public, demonstrate in meticulous detail how U.S. commanders received and disregarded several reports of chemical detections during the war.
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http://www.turnerhome.org/jct/Clips/0228-nyt.htm ---------
Washington - Persian Gulf war veterans told a House subcommittee yesterday that they had been exposed to Iraqi chemical agents during Operation Desert Storm and criticized the Pentagon for denying their complaints.
"The Pentagon knew from Day One that chemical weapons were used," said Marine Corps Maj. Randy Herbert.
"They have a reason to cover the truth. They have done so in the past with World War II and also with Agent Orange in Vietnam. They don't want to be held responsible for all the people who are now sick and the ones who have already died."Herbert's words, difficult to understand because he has Lou Gehrig's disease, were relayed by his wife, Kim, and father, Lloyd, to the House Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations. He blames the disease, a nerve disorder, on low-level chemical exposure. ...
Earlier yesterday, the head of U.S. operations in the 1991 war, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, repeated on NBC's "Today" that there is no evidence the Iraqis used chemical weapons and emphasized that "there was no cover-up on the part of the military." ...
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http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/collections/denied/gulfwar.htm
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