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“Use \u2018em, abuse \u2018em and lose \u2018em. This has been the U.S. military mantra since before George Washington slapped on a pair of boots. This brilliant work documents it all. A searing condemnation of an ungrateful nation.”<\/i> –David H. Hackworth, Colonel, U.S. Army Retired. Author of STEEL MY SOLDIERS’ HEARTS<\/div>\n

With the number of American casualties on the rise in Iraq and Afghanistan, American military families have cause to worry about their enlisted loved-ones more than ever. Yet as award-winning journalist Rick Anderson\u2019s Home Front: The Government\u2019s War on Soldiers<\/i> makes clear, America\u2019s soldiers have more to worry about than just the enemy: the true casualty measure of war is the body count\u2013\u2013the medical failures, psychological toll and the uninvestigated suicides\u2013\u2013that occurs on the home front.<\/p>\n

American casualties in Gulf Wars I and II have been relatively light\u2013\u2013so the public thinks. After all, only 148 soldiers were killed in the 1991 Gulf War. But 11,000 have died since. And that\u2019s only the beginning of the destruction. As Joyce Riley, former Army flight nurse and veterans\u2019 advocate puts it, \u201cI don\u2019t know why the government, if it cares so much about its troops, isn\u2019t saying \u2018My God, 200,000 disabled in that war, 11,000 dead! What did we do?\u2019\u201d New figures show that one third of the 696,000 Gulf I troops have sought war-related medical treatment. A similar pattern is emerging from the latest war in Iraq: For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill; by October 2003, more than 4,500 had already been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. <\/p>\n

The Bush administration, like others before it, has made much of the need for the American public to support the troops that it sends to its wars\u2013\u2013but for its own part, has not only curtailed their support, but recklessly furthered their endangerment. In the very midst of the latest war, while simultaneously lauding the troops, George W. Bush cut back support of both veterans and frontline troops. He has tried to mask the extent of American casualties by nonattendance at funerals and preventing public access to photographs depicting the reality of the escalating conflict in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the untold story of Sgt. Joe Hooper, Vietnam\u2019s most decorated solider and a home-front causality, Home Front<\/i> examines the widespread effects of the government\u2019s weapons, medicines and bureaucracies of mass destruction: the use of vaccines that have led to mysterious deaths among both troops and civilians, and the likely emergence of Gulf War II Illness, a cocktail of ailments similar to Gulf War I Illness\u2013\u2013the modern day version of Vietnam\u2019s Agent Orange. It details the health and medical issues facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military\/bureaucratic politicking behind them. It includes comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, and Pentagon to explain the illnesses, syndromes and symptoms, and an insight into veterans\u2019 battles over medical services, intractable policy, and VA hospital conditions. Public and classified military experiments are detailed along with the \u201cfriendly fire\u201d effects of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium. Also described are post-war suicides, alcoholism and military homicide incidents. <\/p>\n

RICK ANDERSON is former columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/i> and Seattle Times<\/i> and staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle<\/i>; he has also written for the Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones<\/i> and Salon<\/i>. He won the Heywood Broun Award for human rights journalism. His story,”Crippled Home Front,” for Seattle Weekly<\/i> where he now writes, is displayed at the Arlington National Cemetery website. <\/p>\n

FRANCIS A. BOYLE (Foreword) is a well-known expert on international law.<\/p>\n

Also see:
\nUS Military: Only a Desperate Idiot Would Join
\nhttps:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/article.asp?ID=1888<\/p>\n

TABLE OF CONTENTS:<\/p>\n

Foreword by Francis A. Boyle \/ 13<\/p>\n

Author\u2019s Note \/ 19<\/p>\n

Introduction \/ 21
\nJoe Soldier: \u201cNo-value-added\u201d casualties on the home front \/ 21
\nA military-industrial complexion \/ 24
\nFuneral Muzak \/ 27
\nBetween Iraq and a hard place \/ 33 <\/p>\n

Chapter One
\nThe Cocktail Effect: America\u2019s New Agent Orange \/ 40
\nThe Vietnam connection \/ 40
\nA chemical and biological hangover \/ 42
\nThe head cases \/ 43
\nMilitary-related illness: A history of misdiagnoses \/ 46
\nGulf War II illness \/ 49
\nThe smallpox vaccine: opening Pandora\u2019s Box? \/ 52
\nNo mystery deaths? \/ 55
\nSaddam\u2019s WMD: Made in the USA \/ 57
\nToxic black rain \/ 60
\nPortable WMD \/ 61
\nFear of the unproved \/ 64<\/p>\n

Chapter Two
\nDeath by Friendly Fire: The Anthrax Vaccine \/ 67
\nShooting Sandra \/ 67
\n130 percent disabled \/ 69
\nGet shot, that\u2019s an order \/ 72
\nBioPort in a storm \/ 74
\nUnlicensed, experimental, and good to go \/ 76
\nAVA innocent until proved guilty \/ 80
\nNo shortage of AVA horror stories \/ 84
\nAnthrax vaccination for every American? \/ 89<\/p>\n

Chapter Three
\nDepleted Uranium\/Depleted Forces \/ 93
\nMaking Geiger counters sing \/ 93
\nA rash of censorship \/ 97
\nDU on the home front \/ 99
\nThe graveyard factor \/ 101<\/p>\n

Chapter Four
\nThe Rat Brigade: Medical Testing on Soldiers \/ 105
\n\u2018What did they give me?\u2019 \/ 105
\nCIA Project OFTEN \/ 107
\nMKULTRA mind control experiments \/ 108
\nA brief history of human experimentation in America \/ 109
\nSenate Report: Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans\u2019 Health? \/ 112
\nMissing records \/ 116
\nThe Khamisiyah exposures \/ 118
\nHypocrisy at war \/ 122
\nBiowar endangerment of American civilians \/ 124<\/p>\n

Chapter Five
\nSqualene: A Pattern of Deception and Denial \/ 127
\nStonewalling the evidence \/ 127
\nPurely scientific lies \/ 129
\nA moral victory \/ 130<\/p>\n

Chapter Six
\nBetter Soldiers Through Chemistry \/ 131
\nMurder, suicide, rape and\u2014doping? \/ 131
\nWhy Lariam? \/ 132
\nDoping up for America \/ 133
\nPsycho Tuesday, and a fear of Nazis \/ 136
\nDomestic Violence, the other bitter pill \/ 139
\nRape, another military \u2018drug\u2019 \/ 142<\/p>\n

Chapter Seven
\nThe Fortunes of War Production \/ 145
\nUser-deadly weapons \/ 145
\nThe Harrier attack jet: a \u201cwidow maker\u201d \/ 145
\nThe Boeing Chinook\u2019s non-conforming gears \/ 147
\nForgive and forget \/ 150
\nThe business of war is\u2026 \/ 155<\/p>\n

Chapter Eight
\nThe Unkindest Cuts: Government Giveth
\nand Taketh Away \/ 160
\nYesterday\u2019s promises \/ 160
\nRescuing Sergeant Turner \/ 166<\/p>\n

Be kind enough to die \/ 169
\n\u2018Heal me\u2019 \/ 173
\nBroken promises then and now \/ 174<\/p>\n

Chapter Nine
\nThe Other Cocktail Effect \/ 176
\nWilliam Allen\u2019s bar brawl \/ 176
\nA legislative dental extraction \/ 178
\nThe heroes\u2019 war at home \/ 180<\/p>\n

Epilogue \/ 185
\n Lest we forget \/ 185<\/p>\n

Endnotes \/ 187<\/p>\n

Selected Bibliography \/ 195<\/p>\n

Index \/ 197<\/p>\n

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