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During the Gulf War, Americans were entranced by the overwhelming military superiority exercised by the United States during Desert Storm. After long weeks of waiting to find out how high the casualty figures would climb during the opening round of the New World O ....

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.... their suffering to wartime service in the Gulf, though past Pentagon investigations concluded that there was no evidence to link their ailments to wartime risks such as oil-well fire smoke, vaccines, or chemical agents. Originally, the cause of these various symptoms was assumed to be post-traumatic stress, but the persistent and varied nature of the symptoms resisted that label. Pressure from veterans has prompted the government to investigate further the possible causes of the illness: were the troops exposed to Iraqi chemical and biological weapons? Or were experimental drugs the cause? Or is the Vietnam Agent Orange and the Atomic fallout is ....