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The Gulf War's new casualties

The article focuses on the calamities caused by the Persian Gulf War. Feeling the heat from as many as 80,000 veterans requesting special government checkups, Representative Christopher Shays' subcommittee of the U.S. Government Reform and Oversight Committee is conducting an inquiry of its own into the medical maladies arising from the Gulf War. But while the Pentagon admits that upwards of 20,000 U.S. troops were exposed to chemical weapons, it has claimed that only a relatively small number of these troops were exposed to dangerous levels of depleted uranium. Pentagon's main expert on depleted uranium Doug Rokke said that Pentagon has made a political decision and are totally unwilling to recognize that there are health consequences of the use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War.