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(More customer reviews)This is not a Bush-bashing book but a government-bashing book (White House, Congress, name any year) and deservedly so. It's a timly and telling reminder of how we - our leaders - treat our troops on the war and home fronts. We've all heard about it - here are the sad and gory details.
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Only 148 soldiers were killed in the 1991 Gulf War, but 11,000 have died since: is this normal attrition? For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? In crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed individual examples--facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military/bureaucratic politicking behind them, with* comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, Pentagon* historical, war-by-war overview of the issues * comprehensive list of illnesses, syndromes and symptoms * veterans' battles over medical services and policy* analysis of military hospitals and services * public and classified military experiments * discussion of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium * analysis of the high suicide, alcoholism and homicide rates in the military
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