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April 12, 2005

When the Cure Is Worse Than the Disease

Col. David Hackworth, once the darling military analyst of the official right (until he started criticizing the Iraq war), rips the Pentagon anew for its insistence on forcing the dangerous anthrax vaccine on soldiers. Writes Hack:

[S]ince 9-11 and the start of the Global War on Terror, the only American deaths that have occurred from any anthrax attack have been five civilians in the USA during the fall of 2001 from exposure to a strain of anthrax widely believed to have been domestically produced. But while zero service personnel have been killed in action from Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpile of anthrax and other Iraqi WMD that have mysteriously gone walkabout – or anthrax from any other source – six Americans have died after receiving DOD's anthrax vaccine!

The Pentagon wants this vaccine to be mandatory for all service personnel; the courts have temporarily put a stop to that. The vaccine is known to have numerous, potentially deadly, side effects, and the Defense Department tried to cover up the use of a compound in the vaccine that may be responsible for many of the side effects.

Hack concludes that soldiers shouldn't be used as guinea pigs, and they shouldn't. However, since the DoD considers them nothing more than cannon fodder for the empire anyway, why shouldn't the feds experiment on them?

Posted by Mike Tennant at April 12, 2005 09:17 AM

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The only soldiers who have died from Anthrax were infected by the Army's vaccine. The irony of the brass hats.

Just like our drug warriors too, as well. More people and cops have been killed in botched cannabis arrests than have ever died from hitting the bong.

The solution is worse than the problem it "fixes".

Posted by: Ali_Massoud [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 13, 2005 08:56 AM

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