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"How many soldiers had PTSD after the second iraq war? Admittedly 17%, but half of it, state insiders, just don't talk about it, because they are ashamed. They don't want to disqualify themselves; they want to appear strong because a soldier is strong, isn't he? A soldier is a tough guy, not somebody with PTSD. Who handles this Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Well the psychiatrists of course. How? With pills naturally. And here we are again. Pills, pills, pills; profit, profit, profit! We play the name game." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "But let us stay on iraq war number one. Some side effects of just one vaccination were these: memory loss, blurred vision, vomiting, urinary irregularities, abdominal cramps, asthma, respiratory disease, and intestinal blockage. Some soldiers were vaccinated against anthrax. Anthrax once was the talk of the day. An unapproved vaccine to protect against this animal disease was injected to those soldiers; 150 thousand soldiers received anthrax vaccine without data on humans in existence. This vaccine had only been tested on cattle and sheep." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Let's even go back to the first iraq war. Desert Storm happened in 1991. Six hundred and ninety-six soldiers received several vaccinations. And now comes the real surprise. "During the following three years some 80 thousand of those troops checked into VA hospitals with serious neurological and degenerative diseases for which they had no previous history. Collectively, these mysterious new illnesses came to be known as the Gulf War Syndrome." (O'Shea, pg. 140) Investigations followed, and investigation of investigations. Senators and committees came into view. The result?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Let's just look at the iraq war. Just one little war. Let's not talk about the weapon dealers, which made an unbelievable amount of money with this war. (2.1 billion dollars were spent by the USA every day.) Let's not talk about the oil business and connections of some high politicians to the oil, which has been documented so well by CIA officer Robert Baer. Let's not talk about the "reconstruction" firms that earned billions and the real estate deals that are fantastic in every war. Let's not talk about the "connections" of some high USA politicians to the pharmaceutical industry." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The "shell shock" of the survivors of World War I led to some novel treatments (some innovative and compassionate, others as horrific as the war itself), as well as the rise of the "mental hygiene" movement of the 1920s and 1930s; the experience of Vietnam veterans led direcdy to the entry of posttraumatic stress disorder into the revised psychiatric diagnostic manual in 1980; and a considerable amount of the news coverage of the iraq war has addressed the (deteriorating) mental status of the troops, with calls for more assessment, treatment, and general vigilance for their fragile psyches." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Did the so-called Gulf War Syndrome result from the fact that highly stressed American soldiers, already facing combat during the first iraq war in 1991, were then given multiple powerful vaccines—as many of 24 different kinds—that their stressed-out immune systems were unable to properly defend against? In an aging population, were there particular stressors— such as mourning the death of a spouse, or caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's—that undermined already vulnerable immune systems?77 What about cancer?" - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The show never aired (it got bumped by the iraq war), but the conversation I had with the anchor-woman as I sat perched on a high stool waiting for the cameraman to get set up was memorable. "It's ironic that I am acting as a spokesman for taking drugs, since I am writing a book that says that many people are taking drugs they don't need," I said. "What drugs are you writing about?" she asked. "Everything: antidepressants, statins, meds for hypertension." "My husband is a tennis pro," she said. "He went to his doctor, who checked his cholesterol and put him on Lipitor." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Perle is widely regarded as the chief architect of the iraq war. In a July 11,2002, televised PBS interview with James E Rubin, Perle was more than happy to explain that a war was coming: Every day we wait is a day during which a plan may well be forming that could result in the deaths of a great many Americans. Time is not on our side....This evidence is very powerful. There is collaboration between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, which means to destroy us. It entails chemical weapons, biological weapons, training in their application. And he's working on nuclear weapons." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"As discussions of a future oil crisis and the role of oil in the iraq war heat up, so do the efforts of some manufacturers and politicians to convince us that our cars are the very essence of freedom. But the truth is our cars are just tools—and we need better tools now. The auto industry was built on a seemingly endless supply of gasoline, but it is now becoming increasingly clear that the end is, in fact, in sight. The concept of "peak oil" is pretty simple: Oil is a limited resource." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In just the past ten years, the distance flown by international passengers each year has increased by 60 percent; this despite temporary setbacks from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the iraq war, outbreaks of terrorism, soaring oil prices, and economic slowdowns. The World Tourism Organization projects that by 2010 there will be more than 1 billion international tourist arrivals, reflecting a trend toward more long-haul travel. By 2020, 1.2 billion people are projected to have traveled regionally; 400 million, to have traveled farther afield." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Unusual and tragic cases, such as the death of thirty-nine-year-old NBC reporter David Bloom, caused by his riding for days in a cramped military vehicle while covering the iraq war, occasionally bring DVT to the attention of the public. In fact, any situation that creates restricted blood flow— certain types of cancer, obesity, inherited clotting disorders, pregnancy, damage to the veins due to injury or orthopedic surgery, or anything else—can lead to DVT." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The entire July 11, 2002 Richard Perle interview on PBS regarding the coming Iraq war: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/saddam/transcript.html Chapter 12 1. Weiner, Tim. Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Dies; Took LSD to C.I.A. The Washington Post. 3/10/1999 2. In the 1970s the Church Committee investigated illegal activities of covert operations, http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee 3. Budiansky, Stephen, Goode, Erica E., and Gest, Ted The Cold War Experiments U.S News and World Report 1/12/1994 4. Webster, Peter. Gottlieb: The Coldest Warrior. The Washington Post 12/16/2001 5." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"A modest investment of $300 billion, or less than one year's budget to prosecure the iraq war. This seems a paltry sum given the opportunity to eliminate the need for such wars to begin with, save our environment, and reduce our energy expenses. In the Right-Side Up world, we'd already be How to be green? implementing Apollo. So what's the hard part? Many people have First we have to get beyond the staid thinking and asked US this status quo investments of the current administration important question and its energy industry masters. Does that seem too ^ rea||v verv blunt?" - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Are these the only two men in the world who think the iraq war is a success?" asked the headline. In the public spectacle, blame, responsibility, truth, and consequences are usually extremely remote; the spectacle proceeds by separating cause from effect, reward from punishment, and truth from consequences. In private, the punishment usually fits the crime, not only perfectly but poetically. The fool is separated from his money. The reckless driver wrecks his car. The heavy drinker falls down heavily. Still, eventually, even in a spectacle, there are consequences." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"One politician I recently analyzed was talking about the cost of the iraq war and if he believed it was worth it. He started off by saying, "It's very important that we do this," and his hands were somewhat close together, as in e below. Then he said, "It's not that big a deal," and his hands swept out openly, as in/ So his gestures directly The distance between a person's palms in a sweeping gesture tells you how he feels about the magnitude of the event he's describing." - Tonya Reiman, The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter (Get the book.)

"British forces in the first 11 days of the iraq war. America is another country plagued by poverty and basic need and yet estimates by the National Priorities Project using official records said that by the start of 2005 the cost of the war had exceeded $152 billion (see costofwar.com for details). All this in a world in which, as the UN reported in 2004, a child dies of hunger every five seconds. To think that all those people voted for Bush because they said he stood for moral values. There is never enough money to help people, but always enough to kill them." - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.)

"Mounting controversies surrounding the buildup to and the aftermath of the iraq war clouded the final days of his first term. Bush, Vannevar, b. Chelsea, Mass., 1890; d. 1974. Scientist. A star in M.I.T.'s electrical engineering department, where he built a differential analyzer and an early analog computer, Bush convinced President Roosevelt to mobilize military research in support of U.S. forces in World War II. As director of the new federal Office of Scientific Research and Development, he institutionalized the relationship between business, government, and the scientific community." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Geopolitically, Great Britain is a special case among the other European nations, as it was a major partner in the iraq war and thus linked much more closely to the United States. That said, and given Britain's large and sometimes overtly belligerent Muslim population, it is something of a miracle —or perhaps a tribute to the British intelligence services—that a major terrorist incident has not occurred there since the March 2003 Iraq invasion." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "On a closer scale, the iraq war was an attempt to establish a forward base adjacent to Iran and Arabia, to moderate and influence the behavior of both of them, to discourage adventures by Iran and to be ready in case of trouble in Arabia. One of the first things the United States did after invading Iraq in 2003 was to station two armored divisions on the Iraq-Saudi Arabian border. Then there was the issue of Iraq itself. Iraq possesses the world's second-largest oil reserves, after Arabia." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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