Fighting the enemy within

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Daily Dose - Fighting the enemy within

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:59:00 -0500

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April 05, 2005

 

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G.I. Joe's Woes, part one

 

God help our brave soldiers.

 

Not only do they have to dodge the bullets that go along with our

" Yee-haw! " foreign policy, they also have to play Russian roulette

with a cocktail of deadly drugs the armed forces are pumping into them

at every turn. I've written about these kinds of forced injections

before (Daily Dose, 6/17/2003), but those were one-time vaccinations

for things like smallpox and anthrax...

 

As it turns out, the Armed Forces are also administering frequent

doses of different kinds of medications to large numbers of troops

based on where they're being deployed. This I did not know (but it

doesn't surprise me). Here's another thing I didn't know: Some of

these drugs are PSYCHOSIS INDUCING - just the ticket for soldiers with

their fingers on triggers of all kinds, huh?

 

According to a recent CBSNEWS.com expose, the Army has been doling out

weekly doses of a powerful anti-malaria drug called Lariam to tens of

thousands of troops in Iraq - and some of these men have been having

strange and tragic symptoms they insist are side effects of the drug.

One such soldier, a firefighter before shipping out (no stranger to

death, carnage and trauma, in other words), became inexplicably

panicked, disoriented, and paranoid at the sight of a long-dead Iraqi

fighter. Later that night, he clutched his loaded rifle and pistol

tight as he fought off images of the enemy bursting into his room.

What did he do? He asked his superior officers for help, so naturally...

 

They shipped him home to face charges of cowardice!

 

This poor servicemen isn't the only one to have connected the dots

between his extreme symptoms and Lariam. The article mentions others

who've concluded that the drug caused their disturbing or dangerous

behavior, and the wives and families of some troops blame the

medication for the suicides of soldier relatives. In 2003 alone, a

startling 23 military personnel stationed in Iraq and Kuwait killed

themselves. The rate of suicides has dropped recently - since the

Pentagon stopped Lariam's use amid rising concerns about its safety.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

 

These kinds of reports aren't limited to the Iraq war, either - some

U.S. and Canadian servicemen reported strange side effects during the

ill-fated Somalia campaign of the 1990s, and it's been postulated that

Lariam could have caused a spate of spousal murders after 4 soldiers

(all stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C.) all killed their wives over a

43-day span in 2002.

 

What's even scarier than all of this is the fact that Washington knew

all about the dangers of Lariam, yet administered it anyway. The

shocking proof in the next Daily Dose...

 

 

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Saved by the dumbells

 

It's a good thing our government is so inept - untold thousands of

Americans were spared from a potentially fatal smallpox vaccination

because of it...

 

According to a recent Associated Press story, a new Institute of

Medicine report cites Washington's failure to adequately articulate

the reasons why mass smallpox inoculations were necessary as the

pivotal factor in the program's failure countrywide. Launched in 2002

as an initiative to vaccinate a few thousand public health-care

workers, the CDC-run program's goal was ultimately to include millions

of Americans citizens.

 

Thankfully, the misguided initiative met with resistance in the public

and has now all but stalled. In total, just under 40,000 civilians

were inoculated under the program. Yet even as this relatively small

number of vaccinations added up, some serious side effects - including

heart problems - began to make themselves apparent. In response,

several governmental committees pressed for the initiative to be

halted, the article says.

 

Isn't it a shame that our friends and neighbors have to develop heart

trouble and other side effects before our government stops trying to

scare us into undergoing vaccinations for a disease that hasn't

officially existed anywhere in the world since around 1977? They must

have warehouses full of smallpox vaccine that's approaching its

expiration date, or something.

 

The report concluded that the rationale for mass inoculations against

smallpox was never adequately articulated - to the public, to the

clinical community, or to anyone else, for that matter. And for that,

I extend a heartfelt " thank you " to the Fools on the Hill.

 

If they weren't such dumbbells at PR, thousands of us might be dead

from inoculation against a disease that hasn't killed anyone in nearly

30 years.

 

Neither conspiring nor expiring,

 

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

 

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