2003-07-21
... ? DefenseWatch - The Voice of the Grunt - Special Report: Poisoned BattlefieldLeiby interviewed Steve Robinson of The National Gulf War Resource Center and examined in detail Robinson's analysis of U.S. government health statistics: In his view, the numbers demolish the notion of a clean or easy Gulf War I victory: * Estimated Gulf War I veterans: 573,000; * Number who have proved, to the satisfaction of government doctors, that they had a service-related medical problem: 160,000. This comes to nearly 28 percent - a rate of approved medical disability claims exceeding those of World War II (6.6 percent), Korea (5 percent) and Vietnam (9.6 percent).
