Most of you that have been reading my work over the past year know that I am one of the enlisted men that was used in the program described in this book Forgotten Secrets although the author states the program ran from 1955 thru 1972 Army records show that is was not stopped until 1975.

Yesterday the memories were ripped open again by some book reviews, in the USA Today paper and some other reviews on the web. Below the jump I will give the links and some of the quotes

The author of this book is a retired Army Colonel a pyschiatrist that worked at Edgewood Arsenal during two seperate time periods  early in the 1960's and again in the late 1960's his name is James Ketchum. I first heard of the book a few months ago by seeing this webzine article in 10 Zen Monkeys that led me to have some e mail exchanges with the man.

In 1972 the United States Congress ratified the http://www.cdi.org/... 1972 Biological Weapons Treaty. To make the world a safer place, here we are three decades later, and we are spending money as a nation hand over fist to break this treaty, in the words of our President "trust me".  

I might trust him that it is for our nations own good, except the history of the two men next to him, scares the hell out of me, given their involvement in "human experiments" with chemical weapons and drugs and Rumsfled's prior concurrence in Nixon's cabinet prior to 1972 in the biological human tests at Fort Detrick, Maryland. They have shown they have no regard for the "volunteers' lives. They refuse to do complete health studies of the Cold War veterans  today and still ignore the dead and disabled veterans and widows from Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Detrick.  http://www.dailykos.com/...

I am a TEST VET.

We took an oath of secrecy.  Honorable men keep their oaths.  But there is no honor in protecting the predators who used us and then abandoned us.  It is time for the TEST VETS to speak out.

On August 25th, I will be 51 years old.  I have had a stroke, 7 heart attacks, a failed triple bypass, heart ejection fraction of 25%, COPD, skin abnormalities, foot fungus and rashes.  This all started in 1992 when I was 36.  I am in contact with 11 other "test vets" and we all have heart problems and multiple health issues. We are all ignored by the VA

Why the hell won't anyone ask Cheney and Rumsfeld about their Chemical Weapons and drug experiments in 1974 and 1975?   While they were in the Ford Administration, Cheney and Rumsfeld, violated the Nuremberg Codes of 1947 by using enlisted men as human test subjects for chemical warfare.   From 1952 thru 1975, they used 7120 enlisted men in these experiments.  

The health study contacted the participants in 2000 and found that 75% of them were either dead or disabled.

We have all heard the White House's many statements of the separation of Vice President Dick Cheney and his contacts with Halliburton were severed when he became the Vice President.

We have been told that all he receives is deferred compensation from monies previously earned. We were told that his office played NO role in the award of the Halliburton contracts in the immediate aftermath of the invasion in 2003.

That he has not benefited financially because of the war.  The following documents and information obtained thru FOIA suits by Judicial Watch have uncovered documents showing the lies, and the links to the VP's office and the Corps of Engineer's thru the Pentagon.  Links after the jump.

There is a major issue affecting today's service members and of veterans of wars recently fought and wars of our past. PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress disorder as it is known in the DSM-IV, the pyschiactric bible. This is not a subject you will see a lot of major news coverage on, as it is one of the naked ugly truths of war and other traumatic events, People other than veterans have it, war is not the only cause.

The survivors of the WTC and of New York City attacks of 9/11 have a high rate of diagnosis, the Federal Building on Oklahoma City, etc you see the things that can cause, even car accidents, physical attacks, rapes etc. It affects people from all nations, all ethnicities, but soldiers and other service men are more prone to it, than others, due to the images and events they are exposed to in service to this nation.

As a nation we owe these men and women the best care that we can provide them, not the worst, as is being done now. The GAO report issued this week shows that, it shows that DOD is not treating 78% of the people possibly affected by PTSD symptoms, they are just ignoring it.

Can't improve on this (from MENAFN:

Iraq reconstruction -- state in, Pentagon out
Jordan Times - 10/01/2006

After a thousand days of widely acknowledged failure in the job of rebuilding Iraq, the department of defence has quietly been relieved of that responsibility, with the State Department taking over as America's lead reconstruction agency and coordinating the work of all other government departments.

While supporters of the policies of President George W. Bush dismiss the change as an administrative adjustment, others suggest it is symbolic of a decades-old turf battle between the two departments, and the administration's increasing frustration with the reconstruction performance of the DOD and its contractors.

They also point to the switch as an example of how the president goes about making policy changes in Iraq: Exhorting the public to "stay the course" while changing it without fanfare.

Yet further proof the administration lives in the Land of Oz.