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Jay Rockefeller: “What fascinates me but angers me so much is that as I said--and you will remember this, Russell, from our August…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2009
What fascinates me but angers me so much is that as I said--and you will remember this, Russell, from our August hearing--is there is such a direct comparison between this and the Gulf War Syndrome: the denial on the part of the military, their refusal to not only respond to soldiers whose lives are being shredded, could not sleep, could not keep marriages, could not get jobs, could not read newspapers because they were being told to take a pill which had never been cleared by the FDA for animal use much less for human use to protect them from what they thought Saddam Hussein was going to do.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Rockefeller compares military denial of health issues to Gulf War Syndrome.

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