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'stop-Loss' Examines The Toll Of War  -  25 Mar 2008
KBS Radio,It was first significantly employed during the 1990s Persian Gulf War. Since then, it has been used in conjunction with US military efforts in Somalia,

After A Nuclear 9/11  -  25 Mar 2008
Washington Post,Jay Davis, a weapons inspector in Iraq after the Persian Gulf War, serves on the Defense Department's Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.

The Almanac -- weekly  -  25 Mar 2008
Trading Markets (press release),In 1991, the UN Security Council passed the cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War. In 1995, the owners and players of major league baseball

25 Years of the Other Star Wars  -  25 Mar 2008
GizmodoOn 18 January 1991 a Patriot interceptor missile is reported to have engaged a SCUD missile over Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War.

Hall Named 2008 Art of Peace Award Winner  -  25 Mar 2008
St. Mary's University,Hall's first book, A Measured Response, an anthology of poems written by Vietnam War veterans as a response to the first Persian Gulf War, gave these war

Norfolk-based unit releases report on Saddam Hussein  -  25 Mar 2008
Daily Press,After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Saddam "supported a complex and increasingly disparate mix of pan-Arab revolutionary causes and emerging pan-Islamic

IRAQ: The calm before the Perfect Storm  -  25 Mar 2008
American Chronicle,After the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the US encouraged the Kurds to rise up against Saddam Hussein and establish independence. However when the Kurds did

Persian Gulf War syndrome firmly linked to chemical exposure  -  Mar 12, 2008
Tehran Times,CHICAGO (AFP) -- Nearly two decades after veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War came home complaining of odd illnesses, enough evidence has been gathered to

Healing deep psychic wounds  -  Mar 24, 2008
Buffalo News,In addition, two of the women interviewed had experienced combat either in the Iraq War or the Persian Gulf War and suffered trauma from those experiences.

4000 Deaths: Is It All About the Numbers?  -  Mar 24, 2008
Washington Post,Norman Schwarzkopf, the commander of the Persian Gulf War, said in January 1991: "Body count means nothing, absolutely nothing.... All it is is a wild guess

Chemical exposure cited in Gulf War vets' ailments  -  Mar 11, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,About 700000 US troops were deployed for the Persian Gulf War, which lasted from August 1990 through February 1991. More than one-third of them may have

Chemicals, pesticides may be at root of Gulf War illnesses  -  Mar 10, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,About 700000 troops were deployed for the Persian Gulf War, which lasted from August 1990 through February 1991. Many may have been exposed to pesticides

Chemical exposure leads to illnesses among US Gulf War veterans  -  Mar 11, 2008
Xinhua,LOS ANGELES, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A new study has found that about 250000 veterans of the Persian Gulf War have fallen ill because of exposure to a

Health Problems in Persian Gulf War Vets  -  Mar 16, 2008
Ivanhoe,...(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Health problems among the Persian Gulf War Veterans have been a concern since shortly after the 1990-91 conflict.

Gulf War Illness Strongly Linked to Chemical Exposure  -  Mar 10, 2008
Washington Post,Veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War have a higher rate of "chronic multi-symptom health problems" than either non-deployed military personnel or

"We are Living Through Another Hiroshima," Iraqi Doctor Says  -  Mar 24, 2008
Political Affairs Magazine,...formerly chief of nuclear medicine at the VA hospital in Wilmington, Del., said he found uranium isotopes in the bodies of Persian Gulf War veterans.

Health Problems in Persian Gulf War Veterans Higher Due to ...  -  Mar 10, 2008
Newswise (press release)San Diego School of Medicine shows there is increasing evidence that high rates of illness in Persian Gulf War Veterans can be explained, in part,

Exposure to chemicals used during the Persian Gulf War have led to ...  -  Mar 11, 2008
InTheNews.co.uk,Chronic health problems in Persian Gulf War veterans can be explained in part by their exposure to chemicals during the conflict, new research has concluded

McCain's Record On Iraq Is Mixed  -  Mar 23, 2008
Free Internet Press,...that Hussein had abandoned or destroyed his chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs after the Persian Gulf War in 1991, a dozen years earlier.

SCHANSBERG: The strategic logic of suicide terrorism  -  Mar 21, 2008
New Albany Tribune,A more sobering cost is that our efforts in the Middle East since the Persian Gulf War have almost certainly encouraged more terrorism.

Gulf War syndrome linked to chemicals  -  Mar 11, 2008
United Press InternationalSAN DIEGO, March 11 (UPI) -- A US study shows increasing evidence that the high rates of illness among Persian Gulf War veterans can be explained by

Goverment Chemical Caused Gulf War Syndrome, Says Study  -  Mar 10, 2008
Wired NewsApproximately one in three veterans of the Persian Gulf War have reported lingering health problems associated with GWI, from neuropathic pain and loss of

Five years later, Americans changed by war  -  Mar 22, 2008
Las Cruces Sun-News,LAS CRUCES â€” Richard Vallejos, a sergeant 1st class with the New Mexico National Guard, and a veteran of both the Persian Gulf War and Operation Iraqi

(By Lt. Col. Paul Yingling)  -  Mar 24, 2008
Ministry of Defence (press release),...to "transformation" throughout the 1990s, America's armed forces failed to change in significant ways after the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Gulf War Memorial  -  Feb 28, 2008
News 14 Carolina,CHARLOTTE -- The chairman of the Persian Gulf War Memorial Commission resigned Thursday after plans for a statewide memorial that were 17 years in the

Aishah Aliâ€™s interview with geoscientist Leuren Moret  -  Mar 17, 2008
Tehran Times,Aishah Ali: Wouldnâ€™t the soldiers sent to the (Persian) Gulf War suffer even more? Leuren Moret: Yes, we have a 55 percent disability rate for those who

NC Gulf War memorial project stalled, panel member quits  -  Feb 28, 2008
FayObserver.com,AP A member of a state panel charged with building a memorial for Persian Gulf War veterans submitted his resignation Thursday, frustrated with the pace of

NC Gulf War memorial project stalled  -  Feb 28, 2008
abc11tv.com,CHARLOTTE -- A member of a state commission charged with building a memorial to North Carolina's Persian Gulf War veterans has resigned.

Chemicals, cause of PG War syndrome  -  Mar 11, 2008
PRESS TV,American scientists say pesticides and nerve agents are the cause of the majority of illnesses afflicting Persian Gulf War veterans.

Pesticides, Chemicals Strongly Connected to Gulf War Syndrome  -  Mar 11, 2008
eFluxMedia...the chronic fatigue, severe muscle pain, memory loss and other illnesses experienced by about 250000 Persian Gulf War veterans, a new research showed.

A different kind of power struggle in Iraq  -  Mar 24, 2008
Los Angeles Times,The system was heavily damaged during Iraq's eight-year conflict with Iran in the 1980s and during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. It continued to deteriorate

War's price tag  -  Mar 16, 2008
Los Angeles Times,The 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted only a month, but the federal government pays out $4.3 billion a year in disability compensation to Gulf War veterans.

Gulf War Symptoms Attributed  -  Mar 10, 2008
Fox 28,Researchers say they can now explain the high rates of illness in Persian Gulf War veterans. They say some of it is from exposure to certain chemicals.

Helping words flow  -  Mar 20, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,Acree's husband was shot down by Iraqi forces while flying low and slow on a reconnaissance mission during the onset of the Persian Gulf War in January 1991

Young Hollywood needs to go to boot camp  -  Mar 24, 2008
PopMatters,The filmâ€™s young actors were sent to a weeklong â€œboot campâ€? run by Sgt. Major Dever, a Persian Gulf War veteran who retired in 1998 after 25 years in the

War-Related Health Problems in Iraq  -  Mar 10, 2008
PRESS TV,Following the invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Persian Gulf War in 1991, the United Nations imposed sanctions on Iraq which exacerbated the problem.

US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq  -  Mar 14, 2008
Tehran Times,...""It's also more than seven times larger than the Persian Gulf War ($94 billion) and more than twice the cost of the Korean War ($295 billion).

Support service bonuses for Mideast war veterans  -  Mar 16, 2008
Youngstown Vindicator,...provide a service bonus for Ohio veterans of the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as for those who served during the Persian Gulf War.

Blackduck man fighting for ex-son-in-lawâ€™s veteranâ€™s benefits  -  Mar 9, 2008
Bemidji Pioneer,According to a nationwide-study by the Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans of the Persian Gulf War are twice as likely as other military personnel to

War in Iraq 5 years old  -  Mar 19, 2008
The Republican - MassLive.com,Like its predecessor, the Persian Gulf War a decade earlier, this conflict was expected by many to result in a lightning-fast victory, standing as a

Fighting governments and guerrillas  -  Mar 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Perhaps the only example I can readily think of is the Persian Gulf War, in which a US military built to fight the Soviet Union in Europe turned out to be

Review says chemicals caused Gulf War illness  -  Mar 11, 2008
ArmyTimes.com,About 30 percent of the 700000 troops who deployed to the Middle East during the 1991 Persian Gulf War have reported chronic health problems,

War secrets make radio drama's revival relevant  -  Mar 12, 2008
Los Angeles Times,..."As a piece of theater it's better and more elaborate" than the original, produced during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. In the new version, John Heard plays

Chemical Exposures in Gulf War Caused Veterans' Illness  -  Mar 11, 2008
MedPage Today,Persian Gulf War veterans have had a higher prevalence of chronic multisymptom health problems (26% to 32%) than those sent elsewhere or not deployed.

Light the candles  -  Mar 18, 2008
San Diego CityBEAT,Only the War of 1812, Persian Gulf War and little Afghanistan have killed fewer US troops than Iraq. Of course, Iraq is unlike other wars in many ways,

Army Officer Remembered as Hero  -  Mar 21, 2008
Washington Post,Rogers was a military intelligence officer who had worked at the Pentagon, served in the Persian Gulf War and was on his second tour in Iraq.

How Could So Many People Buy into Bush's "Patriotism Sweepstakes" War?  -  Mar 19, 2008
AlterNet,...consisting of 3000 US missiles delivered over 48 hours, 10 times the number of bombs dropped during the first two days of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Team recovers war heroes remains  -  Mar 18, 2008
USA TodayThen there are the 8100 missing from the Korean War, 1800 from the Vietnam War, 120 from the Cold War and one from the Persian Gulf War, Brown said.

Bubble Bath  -  Mar 20, 2008
Inside Futures,Oil prices had the biggest one day drop since the bombs were first dropped on Baghdad during the 1991 Persian Gulf War ignoring what some say,

Five Years of War  -  Mar 21, 2008
MWC News,The Kurds have had a de facto state in northern Iraq since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Many Shiite leaders also favor setting up an autonomous

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