Tuesday, April 08, 2003
There are few things that are for sure, here is one of them. We will have more violence on American people when this war is through. The violence will come from the most unlikely source. The soldiers themselves. and each one has a good chance of being a time bomb.
Here are some notable examples of violence from Gulf War Veterans.
The man convicted of the worst instance of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States started becoming disillusioned with the U.S. government during his service in the Gulf War, he told CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday.
The man was Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber who destroyed The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
Timothy McVeigh said he killed enemy soldiers there but grew to question whether he was doing the right thing. "I thought ... what right did I have to come over to this person's country and kill him? How did he ever transgress against me?"
That disillusionment grew after he returned to the United States and failed to pass a tryout for the Army's special forces unit. "It was (a disappointment)," McVeigh told CBS from the maximum security prison at Terre Haute, Indiana, in an interview that was taped Feb. 22. "But at the same time, I was losing motivation. This was during a period when I was coming to grips with my role in the Gulf War."
McVeigh said : "I had anger welling in me"
McVeigh received an honorable discharge and returned to upstate New York, where he wrote a letter to a newspaper in which he said, "America is in serious decline."
"I believe I had anger welling in me," McVeigh said in the interview.
Asked if violence is an acceptable option, he said, "If government is the teacher, violence would be an acceptable option."
blast, which killed 168 people . "I am prepared for death," he said. "I came to terms with my mortality in the Gulf War."
Another Gulf War Vet of note:
A decorated Gulf War veteran who claimed his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas caused him to rape and kill a female soldier was executed by injection.
Louis Jones Jr., 53, died by injection at the U.S. Penitentiary near Terre Haute after President Bush and the U.S. Supreme Court refused his two final requests that they intervene.
Jones, who had no previous criminal record, admitted kidnapping 19-year-old Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride from a Texas Air Force base, raping her and beating her to death with a tire iron.
His attorneys said exposure to the gas caused severe brain damage that led him to kill. The issue was not raised at Jones' trial because he became aware of the exposure only afterward.
Doctors are connecting the dots on Violence from Gulf War Vets.
"Once it came out that he had a military background, I said this must be a Gulf War veteran," said Dr. William E. Baumzweiger, a Los Angeles neurologist and psychiatrist who specializes in treating Gulf War Syndrome patients.
"There is no doubt that a small but significant number of Gulf War veterans become homicidal" because of Gulf War Syndrome, said Baumzweiger, a leading expert on the syndrome.
He said in such cases "there was always a bizarre strangeness about the violence in that it seemed to come out of nowhere. There were no personal problems or longstanding history" to explain it. The violence, he said, "appears to just come out of thin air."
Here is a more recent and dramatic example of Gulf War Vet Violence
John Allen Muhammad, one of the two suspects in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks, is a twice-divorced, 41-year-old Gulf War veteran who converted to Islam 17 years ago and earned an expert marksmanship badge in the U.S. Army.
The 6-foot-1-inch Muhammad, also known as John Allen Williams, was stationed in the 1980s at Fort Lewis, Washington
Memory and cognition: Rogene Henderson of the University of New Mexico reported in 2002 that low doses of sarin change the distribution of acetylcholine receptors in rats’ brains. Affected regions include those used for memory and cognition - which are the functions disturbed in Gulf war veterans. The effect is more marked in stressed animals, which may explain why soldiers who saw combat show more severe symptoms. Other groups have also shown that nerve agents cause basal ganglion damage in animals.
We not only created a lot of people of Arab decent that want to hurt us, we also transformed our own soldiers to come back and also exact violence on the people back home, and we don't know who or when they will turn to violence. Nice going Bush, God Help Us and God help those returning soldiers.
Here are some notable examples of violence from Gulf War Veterans.
The man convicted of the worst instance of domestic terrorism in the history of the United States started becoming disillusioned with the U.S. government during his service in the Gulf War, he told CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday.
The man was Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber who destroyed The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
Timothy McVeigh said he killed enemy soldiers there but grew to question whether he was doing the right thing. "I thought ... what right did I have to come over to this person's country and kill him? How did he ever transgress against me?"
That disillusionment grew after he returned to the United States and failed to pass a tryout for the Army's special forces unit. "It was (a disappointment)," McVeigh told CBS from the maximum security prison at Terre Haute, Indiana, in an interview that was taped Feb. 22. "But at the same time, I was losing motivation. This was during a period when I was coming to grips with my role in the Gulf War."
McVeigh said : "I had anger welling in me"
McVeigh received an honorable discharge and returned to upstate New York, where he wrote a letter to a newspaper in which he said, "America is in serious decline."
"I believe I had anger welling in me," McVeigh said in the interview.
Asked if violence is an acceptable option, he said, "If government is the teacher, violence would be an acceptable option."
blast, which killed 168 people . "I am prepared for death," he said. "I came to terms with my mortality in the Gulf War."
Another Gulf War Vet of note:
A decorated Gulf War veteran who claimed his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas caused him to rape and kill a female soldier was executed by injection.
Louis Jones Jr., 53, died by injection at the U.S. Penitentiary near Terre Haute after President Bush and the U.S. Supreme Court refused his two final requests that they intervene.
Jones, who had no previous criminal record, admitted kidnapping 19-year-old Pvt. Tracie Joy McBride from a Texas Air Force base, raping her and beating her to death with a tire iron.
His attorneys said exposure to the gas caused severe brain damage that led him to kill. The issue was not raised at Jones' trial because he became aware of the exposure only afterward.
Doctors are connecting the dots on Violence from Gulf War Vets.
"Once it came out that he had a military background, I said this must be a Gulf War veteran," said Dr. William E. Baumzweiger, a Los Angeles neurologist and psychiatrist who specializes in treating Gulf War Syndrome patients.
"There is no doubt that a small but significant number of Gulf War veterans become homicidal" because of Gulf War Syndrome, said Baumzweiger, a leading expert on the syndrome.
He said in such cases "there was always a bizarre strangeness about the violence in that it seemed to come out of nowhere. There were no personal problems or longstanding history" to explain it. The violence, he said, "appears to just come out of thin air."
Here is a more recent and dramatic example of Gulf War Vet Violence
John Allen Muhammad, one of the two suspects in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks, is a twice-divorced, 41-year-old Gulf War veteran who converted to Islam 17 years ago and earned an expert marksmanship badge in the U.S. Army.
The 6-foot-1-inch Muhammad, also known as John Allen Williams, was stationed in the 1980s at Fort Lewis, Washington
Memory and cognition: Rogene Henderson of the University of New Mexico reported in 2002 that low doses of sarin change the distribution of acetylcholine receptors in rats’ brains. Affected regions include those used for memory and cognition - which are the functions disturbed in Gulf war veterans. The effect is more marked in stressed animals, which may explain why soldiers who saw combat show more severe symptoms. Other groups have also shown that nerve agents cause basal ganglion damage in animals.
We not only created a lot of people of Arab decent that want to hurt us, we also transformed our own soldiers to come back and also exact violence on the people back home, and we don't know who or when they will turn to violence. Nice going Bush, God Help Us and God help those returning soldiers.
# posted by Thomas @ 12:10 AM 
