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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SNET: "Shame on You, Gen. Schwarzkopf," by Denise Donnelly
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>Denise Donnelly is a freelance writer and Gulf War Activist who lives
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>in Rockport, Mass. Her confrontation with Gen. Schwarzkopf last
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>month, over Gulf War syndrome, was carried nationally by Associated
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>Press. (Please notice that later in this story the prevalence of ALS
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>will be addressed!)
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>Dear Gen. Schwarkopf:
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>While my family and I picketed outside, you reclined in the elegant
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>lobby of the Goodwin Hotel in Hartford on 29 May, answering
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>reporter's questions you had approved in advance. Later, instead of
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>leaving as you had come, through the front door, you snuck out the
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>side onto a waiting bus with conveniently darkened windows.
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>Meanwhile, you distracted us by keeping your three limousines idling,
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>drivers in a false state of waiting alertness. A clever ploy, general,
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>but one unworthy of those so-called "leadership qualities" you went
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>to Hartford to lecture about.
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>As you tour the country congradulating yourself on these same
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>leadership qualities, tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans' and
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>their families suffer and die, all without the benefit of your leadership
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>qualities. My brother, Maj. Michael Donnelly, is one of those
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>veterans. Your evasive and self-serving behavior since the war's end
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>can only be a grave disappointment to him and the other thousands
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>of other brave men and women you have abandoned.
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>You have chosen lucre over truth, Gen. Schwarzkopf. Rather than
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>acknowledge that something very wrong happened during your
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>"perfect war," rather than lead the fight to discover the truth about
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>what happened and ensure that veterans get the compensation,
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>recognition and treatment they desire, rather than forego the fat fees
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>you are earning, you choose instead to parade around the country
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>touting your leadership qualities.
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>I have a prediction for you. You will not be remembered as the
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>general who won the clinically perfect war. You will be remembered
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>as the man who hid from the truth. You will be remembered as the
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>general who sold his soul for false gods of wealth and fame. You will
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>be remembered as the retired general who, on his way to the
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>Bushnell auditorium to discourse on his leadership qualities, ignored
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>the anguished parents of a courageous F-16 pilot suffering from war
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>wounds sustained in service to his country.
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>"What possible reason would I have for covering this up?" you
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>peevishly asked reporters four times during your carefully staged
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>press "opportunity." I will posit one theory. You are making vast
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>sums selling your story. For example, who paid for your visit to
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>Hartford? United Technologies Corporation did, a major defense
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>contractor.
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>What would happen to your sweatheart deals, if you were to suddenly
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>contradict the Pentagon, issuer of those contracts? If you were to
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>acknowledge that Gulf War vets need you to take a leadership role
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>in resolving exactly what happened over there? If you were to insist
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>that 100,000 illnesses and 4,000 deaths and a birth defect rate more
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>than twice the norm are enough? (Added, study released did not
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>address reserve components and those forced off active duty by ill
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>health.)
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>I'll tell you what would happen: Goodbye, retirement fund. Goodbye,
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>hero Schwarzkopf. Hello, uphill battle. This is all just a theory, you
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>understand, but you're the one who asked the question.
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>Now, I have a few questions for you. Were you forced to ingest the
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>innoculant pyrostgmine bromide, the non-FDA approved known
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>carcinogen you ordered your troops to take? Where were you when
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>the oil fires were raging? Were you repeatedly exposed to high
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>levels of extremely toxic pesticides, such as malathion and lindane,
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>as your troops were? When the chemical weapons alarms sounded,
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>was there ever a time you did not retreat to your bunker?
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>And how about this one: How do you explain the phenomenal
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>incidence of ALS -- Lou Gerig's Disorder -- among Gulf War veterans?
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>Major Michael Donnelly is one of the Gulf War veterans we know of
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>with ALS. We suspect many more cases exist, but the VA and DOD
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>refuse to gather the data. (Your former bodyguard, Kevin Wright, of
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>Lima, Ohio, the man you ordered to stand outside the bunker while
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>chemical weapons alarms sounded, is being evaluated for ALS. But, I
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>forgot. You already know that Kevin and his entire family are
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>extremely ill. You just don't want to talk about it.) And we just
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>learned that of up to 14 British Gulf War veterans with ALS.
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>Even if the numbers were the whole picture, this places the
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>incidence of ALS far outside the expected range, according to the
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>Congressional Research Office and Dr. Robert Brown of
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>Massachusetts General Hospital. Both concur that the expected
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>rate for this population should be about 3/4 to one case per million.
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>With 700,000 Americans serving in the Gulf, the incidence is 14.3
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>per million.
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>Being a leader means more than talking about yourself, Gen.
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>Schwarzkopf. Being a leader is uncomfortable. It's often unpleasant,
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>There are no underground bunkers or darkened buses for leaders.
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>There are only the barbs of cynics, and the stinging bite of the wind
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>you brave for the benefit of others. There is the uncharted, unpopular
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>path you must cut with tools sometimes dull and inadequate, but you
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>cut that path all the same, because you know in your heart it's the
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>right thing to do.
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>You are no leader, Gen. Schwarzkopf. Sadly, you are also proof that
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>we did not learn the real lessons of Vietnam, which was not how to
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>fight and win a war. We should have learnd that war's only victims
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>are time and truth. For, just as the thousands of Vietnam veteran
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>victims of Agent Orange and their families suffered and died in the
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>shadow of institutionalized denial, you now condemn a new
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>generation of patriots to suffer and die in the shadow of a massive
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>and tragic governmental cover-up.
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>With Vietnam, we could pretend to claim that a veil of willful
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>ignorance blinded us to the truth. This time, we can only admit what
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>we know to have been true all along. There is unadulterated evil at
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>work here.
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>As only mothers can do, my mother said it best: Shame on you, Gen.
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>Schwarzkpf, Shame on you!
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