Department of Veterans Affairs Reports 73 Thousand U.S. Gulf War Deaths
By Gary Vey for viewzone
Editor’s Note: This story was published in the early part of 2010 and received little attention until just recently. It’s very satisfying as a writer to receive emails from readers who are finally realizing what kind of deception has been pulled on the American citizens. I also thank Rense.com for posting the link. For some reason, Rense.com rarely carries stories from viewzone.com, despite our common concerns and views. Anyway, thanks Rense! And thanks to the many readers who help spread the truth from websites like rense.com and viewzone.com — we do it for you because we love this country and despise what it has become of late. Happy July 4th everyone!
More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans. This probably is news to you. But the truth has been hidden by a technicality. So here is the truth.
The casualties in the Vietnam War were pretty simple to understand. If a soldier was dead from his combat tour, he was a war casualty. There are 58,195 names recorded on the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC.
Some of these brave men died in the jungles of Vietnam while others died in Medivac units or hospitals in Japan and America. A dead soldier can surrender his life anywhere in service to his country. It really doesn’t matter where this happens. The location of a soldier’s death in no way colors his sacrifice.
But something odd has happened with the Iraq War. The government, under the Bush administration, did something dishonest that resulted in a lie that’s persisted since the war began — and continues to this very day. They decided to report the war deaths in Iraq only if the soldier died with his boots on the ground in a combat situation.
What’s the difference, you might ask?
The combat in Vietnam was in rural areas, far removed from medical treatment centers. Injured soldiers were treated by a Medic. Most died at the scene of the battle before they could be evacuated. Many died on route or were declared dead at the medical treatment facilities. The situation in Iraq is vastly different.
Fighting in Iraq is mainly in urban areas. Soldiers who are injured are quickly evacuated with armored personnel carriers or helicopters. It’s a much more efficient system than what was possible in Vietnam, but for those that are seriously injured it means that death is more likely to happen while they are in transit or at the treatment facility.
Under the new reporting system, deaths that happen en route or post evacuation are not counted as combat deaths. This is why the number seems unusually low — a little over four thousand as of 2009.
The actual figures have been hidden from the American public just like the returning, flag draped coffins were censored from the press. But the figures are now available and we can only hope that the American people will be outraged when they learn how they have been misled.
According to The Department of Veterans Affairs, as of May 2007, reports in the Gulf War Veterans Information System reveal these startling numbers:
Total U.S. Military Gulf War Deaths: 73,846
* Deaths amongst Deployed: 17,847
* Deaths amongst Non-Deployed: 55,999
The stastics for non-lethal injuries are likewise staggering:
Total “Undiagnosed Illness” (UDX) claims: 14,874
Total number of disability claims filed: 1,620,906
* Disability Claims amongst Deployed: 407,911
* Disability Claims amongst Non-Deployed: 1,212,995
Percentage of combat troops that filed Disability Claims 36%
I know you probably will think this is another conspiracy theory — I did when I first heard about this — so please read the original report for yourself. [Source: http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdf Note: Sometimes this link is not active so we have posted the pdf file on viewzone 393 kb.]
Wounded US soldier, Iraq 2007.
More deaths and mysery to follow…
More than 1,820 tons of radioactive nuclear waste (i.e. depleted uranium) were exploded in Iraq alone in the form of armor piercing rounds and bunker busters. This represents the worlds worst man made ecological disaster ever. 64 kg of uranium were used in the Hiroshima bomb. The U.S. Iraq Nuclear Holocaust represents far more than fourteen thousand Hiroshima’s.
The nuclear waste the U.S. has exploded in the Middle East will continue killing for hundreds of years! That’s how long these particles of radioactive dust will continue to blow around, get lodged in someone’s lungs or be ingested. Scientists calculate that there is now enough radioactive material in Iraq to wipe out a third of the world’s current population.
While we never found any WMD’s (Weapons of Mass Destruction) in Iraq, we sure made up for it by importing our own! Birth defects among Iraqi newborns are up a whopping 600% from before the war. The defects are typical of the kind produced by exposure to radioactive poisons. And these injuries are happening to the civilian population of Iraq — the people we were supposedly “liberating.”
This writer happened to visit Iraq back in 2001, at the time Saddam Hussein was still in power. The world’s nations were imposing an embargo on all imports in an attempt to punish the nation for invading the neighboring nation of Kuwait. I remember the good people of Iraq who treated me with kindness and hospitality — even while knowing I was an American. Despite the embargo on such vital things as medicine and hospital supplies, the markets were thriving with local produce. Children freely played in the streets and there was laughter. To see what this war has done to Iraq is especially painful and speaks loudly of the immorality that has caused these innocent people to suffer. And now, to see that this same immorality extends to the American people in the form of deception and lies crosses the line.
I live in a small town in New England. We have known of many casualties from Iraq — too many. Yet the numbers being reported in the media make it seem that this is a rare occurrence. Just over 4,000? How can this be? In short — it’s NOT.
What will it take to awaken people and make them angry enough to hold our government responsible for these lies? A democracy is only good if its people are well informed. How else can we make decisions abou what’s best for us? If we are fed s*** and kept in the dark we truly are a nation of mushrooms.
Before I end this I want to say a big THANK YOU to all the vets who put their country and its people before themselves. We are proud of you and believe that you put your lives on the line for something a little better than what we are currently experiencing with our government. Thanks to you we’re still a democracy. So it’s up to us, the people you fought for, to make your effort worthwhile.
from USA come only lies at least since
WOODROF WILSON !
The US torture programme meant in the eyes of the world
they lost credibility, the US made many enemies through enforced rendition or kidnapping people of the street to make up the numbers
even hardened British troops refused to serve alongside americans again
More british soldiers were kiled by US freindly fire
than the people they were trying to kill
there were anti war marches in every town and city in the UK
but still tony ” the bastard ” blair sent our men to a racist war on brown folk, nd all for israel
BTW this months Bumchums magazine has an interview with the 2 black boys aged 13 and 15 wh were paid to piss on Philip Schofield
Wars are for killing the goyim so this was a success.
73,000 gullible idiots, psychopaths, imbeciles, and war criminals; good riddance to them. There’s a HUGE difference between the casualties in Vietnam versus Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc, and that is most of the poor saps who got sent to Vietnam were FORCED via the draft, while every dumb-f*ck marauding their way around Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and so on, WILLFULLY volunteered to take part in the highly illegal and disgustingly immoral rampages. I come from a looong line of soldiers and warriors, but there is absolutely no honor in over 90% of the military actions of the US over the past 100 years.
Equally galling are the names given to these demonic acts of naked aggression, e.g. “Iraqi Freedom”, “Enduring Freedom”, and so on. Talk about Orwellian. One of the states in which I reside has vehicle license plates available to the returning murdering psychopaths and imbeciles to display as they drive around. It’s actually helpful they advertise their criminality and stupidity. “Iraqi Freedom”, my God, yup, you really brought freedom to them…you freed them from life, property, their children, their infrastructures, their schools, their food, their hospitals, their dignity, and for what? Because some pathological liars told you the Iraqis were bad people and out to get you? These f*cking murdering clowns destroyed a secular sovereign nation for blatant lies and for a country and maniacal tribe, Israel, that is a pox on humanity and the country that is the actual clear and present danger. The demonic war of aggression upon Iraq was, and remains, a crime against humanity and every asshole who took part in it should rot in hell.
The question is; who cares?
Do I care about the deaths of any of these servicemen and women? Nope.
What I do care about are the innocents they’ve murdered in Iraq and all over the world, where the jew death machine (western armed forces) has invaded.
If someone kicked someone’s door down, burst into their house and killed the family/people within, the police would arrest them (unless they kill them first), where they’d be put in a cell, appear in temporary court where bail would be denied and awaiting court hearings to decide upon their sentencing/execution.
However, when you join the armed forces, the jew gives you a free pass to do this abroad. And when you come back home, you’re welcomed as a hero.
Anyone notice the disconnect here or is it just me?
And on that, the police will arrest a mafia boss, take him to court and have him tried on ‘pushing the buttons’ (giving the orders to kill others), but they will completely ignore the politicians who do EXACTLY the same, when they give the orders for their country to go to war and murder FAR MORE than any Mafia boss would comprehend. At least Mafia bosses are killing other mafia criminals. Politicians, on the other hands, have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents on their hands and they’re untouched.
So the death toll has exceeded Vietnam? And?
Forgive my lack of empathy, but why on earth, would I want to be concerned with the death of murderers? I have far more sympathy for the Iraqi people, who died killing Americans and westerners. At least they were fighting for their survival, instead of the creation of Greater Israel and the plunder of foreign lands, for their jew overlords.
If you, as a member of the armed forces, think that defending your nation is going to a foreign land that poses you no threat, killing the locals, which results in not only hatred for you and your nation, but worse, they actually pile into your country as refugees, then you clearly shouldn’t be anywhere near not just any armed force, but a weapon. But that’s precisely the problem today. The people not just in America, but in the UK and Europe, who should not be allowed to use a weapon are those in the armed forces and police/security services.
The sad reality is, 99% of the public are incapable of understanding anything I’ve said. You can’t cure stupid.
I would think that for his role in starting the Iraq War Tony Blair doesn’t worry so much about his enemies getting even, not when his friends are the likes of the CIA, Mossad, MI5, MI6, the British and Saudi royal families, arms companies, ruthless multi-national corporations and various Middle Eastern intelligence agencies, Any one who might want him dead or else see his assassination as useful. It was even reported he bought two houses back-to-back in London so he could enter one and leave through the other to go off elsewhere. So when noises outside disturb him at night he knows it’s not some vegan peacenik ninja hippy coming to do him in, and he must just hope to God it’s not one of his old friends up to their old tricks.
lewis jones is right. And even the official statistics then were lousy.
The population of the USA has doubled since Vietnam. When the country started sending “advisors” there were about 150-175 million Americans.
PTSD was mostly untreated back then. A relative, long gone, committed suicide less than 10 months after returning. His death was considered not related to service, yet everyone who knew him said he should have been hospitalized and given treatment after his hitch. It was rarely done at all.
My guess is the number of troops lost in Vietnam then and elsewhere now are all significantly higher than any official estimate. Ratio to population no longer relevant since none advance the “national interest” in any way.
The guilt is on the “show-runners”. These wars in the Middle East are just as much a fraud as Vietnam was. Less than ten years after Saigon fell, US business interests were getting work sent to “communist” Vietnam without one significant repercussion.
Who doubts that Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest are all being scouted as useful cash cows for the future — with current soldiers there acting as badly-paid scouts for when the money rolls in?
Ratchild: We’ll gradually kill off the white goyim over the decades via Orwellian wars, abortion, mongrelization, simian immigration & black on white homicides…
People are forced to believe Human Extinction are all that ends War on Terror
Good post Umbra Bellator.
I remember how easy it was to indoctrinate the US public into believing that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. That summed up the gullible American population. And what was worse, the first Iraq war, in the 80’s, had nothing to do with Iraq invading Kuwait to steal it’s oil. Hell no! We were never told that Kuwait was DIAGONALLY drilling into Iraqi oil fields and stealing their oil! Iraq had every right to do what it did. America and the UK new very well what Kuwait was doing and gave Iraq the green light. And what happened? They attacked Iraq, when Iraq invaded. That’s why they executed Saddam Hussein. He was a puppet of the west, put into power by them and was going to spill the beans on all the dirty plays of the western nations in the middle east. So they hanged him.
Depleted Uranium ordinance has been out of the publics eye for at least 10 years. Kept hidden away by the corrupt media with government compliance. What sort of maniacs, what evil war criminals would use such Earth destroying and people killing munitions!? No wonder the United States is thought of in the lowest degree possible. The U.S. had more than enough weaponry to destroy Iraq without using depleted uranium at all. Such is the sickening immoral level the U.S. government has attained since 9/11.
When I look at the current situation in the west, I can’t help but think the fowls are coming home. The vaccination campaign looks good. Maybe it will make the agent orange pollution look like a walk in the park. All the misbegotten idiots who helped to destroy Germany and Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine etc should all commit suicide, to do the world a favour.
A man by the name of Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative career in the NFL to go serve his country because of 9/11 and die because * friendly fire * (yeah, right). The real murders of this atrocious war are still out there.
“A man by the name of Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative career in the NFL to go serve his country because of 9/11 ”
A man by the name of pat Tillman gave up a lucrative career in the NFL thinking that enlisting in an illegal war of aggression would serve his country. In reality he was serving the Zionist settler state, Jew capital, big oil, and the MIC.
To soothe any misgivings he may have had he told himself that the Iraqis blew up the three buildings in NYC on the 11/09/2001.
There yago, fixed it for ya.
The other factor is that when the White men have served the Jews by ruining one of their neighbours they have to be killed because Yids cannot have trained fighters running around in America or Europe–they might get the idea that defending their own country is good.
The deaths of Iraqi innocent children, women and men certainly far exceed that of American rapist and murdering soldiers.
I feel no sympathy for the American scum.
The enemy of Islam and Christianity told the Christian, go fight for your country. Go avenge the deaths of 3000 people killed in the towers by the enemy.
And the Christians listened intently. They are spineless war criminals.
I dont regret any out of free will enlisted
soldier dieing for rothschild + israhell.
same no regret for his family !