Gulf War Illnesses

It took them 20+ years to finally 'fess up, huh?

Yeah ... God bless America. :mad:

I'm pretty sure the vets who suffered from this knew where it came from a bit earlier than that.
 

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Heard this gal on a radio show last night talking about her latest book American in the Basement. It tells of suppressed information regarding the navy pilot Captain Michael Speicher. She wrote another book on the subject awhile back, but this one is supposed to have all the info from beginning to end. Sad story, hard not to get angry about these kind of things taking place for so long now.

http://www.amywatersyarsinske.com/

In the second half, Amy Waters Yarsinske, a former naval intelligence officer, discussed the incredible story of denial, deceit, and deception that ultimately cost Navy pilot Captain Michael Scott Speicher his life after the government left him behind in Iraq during the first Gulf War.

She traced the story back to 1991, when Speicher's air squadron was flying over Iraq. As a result of friendly fire due to complications with the jet, Speicher crashed in the desert, but managed to safely eject from the craft.

Despite having U2 imagery of the downed craft and knowledge that Speicher had been ejected, Yarsinske lamented that CIA and military officials made a "conscious decision" to not rescue him. She suggested that the decision was borne out of a desire to keep him from talking about being shot down by friendly fire as well as an effort to maintain the public perception that the early air missions had been a complete success.

According to Yarsinske's research, Speicher followed all of the steps to signal that he had survived the crash and needed help. However, since aid did not arrive, he took refuge with a group of sympathetic Bedouins and lived with them for nearly four years.

During this time, attempts were made by an intelligence asset within Iraq to help rescue Speicher, but the U.S. State Department and DoD "wanted nothing to do with this."

In 1995, she said, Saddam Hussein's intelligence forces found Speicher amongst the Bedouins and captured him, while also slaughtering the entire tribe for having protected him. Following that, Speicher was secretly held captive by the Iraqi government until it fell during the second Gulf War and a handful of his bones were discovered in the desert under suspicious circumstances.
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Audio of the show can be heard here if you join the site...http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/06/23
 
SeaBreeze said:
Heard this gal on a radio show last night talking about her latest book American in the Basement. It tells of suppressed information regarding the navy pilot Captain Michael Speicher. She wrote another book on the subject awhile back, but this one is supposed to have all the info from beginning to end. Sad story, hard not to get angry about these kind of things taking place for so long now.

http://www.amywatersyarsinske.com/



Audio of the show can be heard here if you join the site...http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2013/06/23
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Although I believe that the U.S. government is entirely capable of pulling off such a dishonorable act, I wonder what proofs Ms. Yarsinske has that can cement the accuracy of this affair. There have been far too many journalists and authors over the past several years that have created entire universes of lies and exaggerations in order to sell their words, and I'm afraid I'm a bit gun-shy at this point.

If this event did indeed occur the way she relates then I doubt that her book would have ever been published - it would have been shot down as soon as word got out.
 
The publisher, who was the first guest on the show, said he invested in his own publishing company years ago when he realized that some people had stories to tell which were refused by other publishing companies. He said each book was studied, edited and reviewed for sometimes up to two years, before acceptance. He said that many have gone to him for publishing, and were turned away, due to the questionable content. Here's his site with related books. http://www.trineday.com/
 
That's good to hear SifuPhil! I was just laying awake listening to that show from around 11PM-3AM, pulled the earplug and crashed after that. :p Anyhoo, both guests sounded very knowledgeable and legit to me, from what I could take from a radio show interview. I don't believe everything I hear, but I like to keep an open mind, and see what folks are saying out there. I honestly feel that the info we're told on regular news reports is heavily edited by the powers that be, so nice to have a couple of other sources regarding what's really going on...until they're taken off the air I guess. :rolleyes:
 
Hopefully it will be like fleas on a dog - the more they get rid of them, the more new ones spring up. I'm wishing the same thing would happen with medical marijuana dispensaries - I just watched a Morgan Spurlock (creator of Super Size Me) special last night on CNN where he hung out at an Oakland dispensary for a while and discussed how the Feds tried to shut them down, at the same time they are being hailed as the very model of modern dispensaries in the field.

He pointed out the root cause of why the government won't give up, even when the States themselves legalize it: money. He showed what I've always said - that the police, courts and prisons make billions annually from weed arrests, and they won't willingly give that up. Add in the powerful medical and pharmaceutical lobbies and it appears to be an uphill battle.

Sorry to babble, but this is a pet peeve of mine.
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:iagree:...it's all a scam, they should keep their "war on drugs" directed at pharmaceuticals, and the "candy" commercials on TV that have side-effects worse than the disease. :rolleyes: And I thought they were letting real prisioners out who are guilty of murder, etc., before their time, because they were running out of room in the jails and money. None of it makes sense, and money, power and greed is behind it all. Not sorry to babble...:soap2:
 
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