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Steve Buyer: Being very pragmatic, following the gentleman's thought process, why did we give inoculations to over 10,000 soldiers in…

On the recordJune 23, 1997
Being very pragmatic, following the gentleman's thought process, why did we give inoculations to over 10,000 soldiers in the Persian Gulf actually for botulism and then require all soldiers in the gulf to receive two shots of anthrax if, in fact, we are not potentially going to face a biological threat?
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Steve Buyer
Indiana

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Questioning the rationale behind inoculations for soldiers in the Persian Gulf.

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