Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-up of Gulf War Syndrome
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at
3:52 am
Product Description
“Eddington’s book comes off as a well-written, well-documented account of what happens when a CIA employee rocks the boat. It raises concerns that go beyond Desert Storm, a fear that the CIA has given up its independence from the Pentagon.”—The Birmingham News 7/13/97… More >>
Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-up of Gulf War Syndrome
Tagged with: CoverUp • Gassed • Gulf • inside • PentagonCIA • Story • Syndrome
Filed under: Conspiracy
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This book reminds me of the tale of ” Man of La Mancha” or Pat and Robin against the intelligence community. I cannot believe that an imagery analyst was able to find and reveal all this information to CIA and other government officials and no one else was able to see the light. Mr. Eddington sounds like a disgruntled employee out for his own glory. He keeps saying how the Agecy killed his career but it may of been his own undoing. Just keep attacking those winmills!!! wait for the movie!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book in disbelief. I know chemical weapons and their effects. If what the author said really happened, they’d still be bringing home the body bags! I am a vet and have served my time in various hot spots. His ignorance of the military is evident throughout the book. He makes the CIA to be incomptent, which it is not. Ditto for the DIA. If you really want to know what happened over there, read General Schwarzkopf’s book. He is the true hero, an honorable man who tells it like it is. Don’t waste your money on this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Gassed in the Gulf was a good read. I would recommend it to anyone. It had a great ending and storyline.
Rating: 5 / 5
Interesting read, fair editing, but I wouldn’t put too much stock in this story. Mr. Eddington sounds almost amateurish in his insistence that nerve agents are responsible for the illnesses that many of us veterans face everyday, and hysterical in his insistence that this was “the case” which got him the boot from the CIA. This is even more interesting since he has changed his tune to fit the “cause du jour” – signing onto the anti-DU lobby, the anti-anthrax vaccine groups, and whatever else will keep him around and on the op-ed page. This book makes some grand assumptions and leaps of logic from two underlying facts – yes, there was a Gulf War, and yes, some folks are sick. I suspect if what he says is true, the symptoms us vets face would be plain and simple. But they are not, despite how some shrill voices (see other reviews) wish them otherwise. Bottom line – take this book more as fiction adventure thriller, and you’ll be getting just that. Read at the beach, if you must.
Rating: 1 / 5
“Gassed In The Gulf” is one of the most important books I have read in recent memory. As an independent journalist who’s written on the subject of Gulf War Syndrome, I found Mr. Eddington’s book to be enormously insightful. Most of my research and writing on this topic revolved around the exposure of our troops to depleted uranium, and how that is directly connected to GWS; however, my knowledge of the release of chemical/biological agents during the war was, as this book has shown me, sadly lacking.
The notion that depleted uranium and chemical/biological weapons both interacted, lowering the immuno response of the troops and thus making them much more susceptible to the effects of one another, as well as creating symptoms that might not match simply one type of exposure, is highly likely. This would, of course, explain why often there are examples of symptoms not directly linked to simply chemical/biological exposure of just depleted uranium. The result is no doubt the cause of much of the confusion about the true nature of GWS.
Mr. Eddington’s book serves to provide what, for me, is the “missing link” in all of this. He and his wife are to be commended for their courage and dedication to this issue, especially in light of the enormous burden and subsequent personal risk they have endured to make this information available to the veterans of the war and to all Americans in general. I offer my thanks, as well as my sympathies for their struggles in dealing with the after-effects of their revelations.
Anyone serious about understanding the degree to which political considerations and a complete lack of humanitarian considerations propel U.S. policy decisions must read “Gassed in the Gulf”. We owe it not only to ourselves, and to the many Gulf War veterans and their families, but to the very promises of liberty and truth which we all hold so dear.
Andrew Poe
Washington, DC
Rating: 5 / 5