Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only The First Victims -- by Gary Matsumoto

From: john (nospamoridiots_at_vaccine.com)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:54:29 +0000 (UTC)

The case against anthrax vaccine

 By Steve Weinberg
 Special to The Denver Post

  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-0151916-8961630

 Post file
 A picture of Morrison resident Lori Greenleaf's son looms behind her. He is
 being disciplined for refusing anthrax shots.

 Reading investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto's account of U.S. military
 personnel severely incapacitated or killed because, he says, they received
 vaccinations meant to protect them from anthrax poisoning is akin to
 absorbing hammer blows to the head over and over for hours. In relentless
 fashion, Matsumoto presents evidence that military commanders, physicians
 and federal government drug regulators and pharmaceutical companies have
 lied to Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force troops.

 The lies continue today, Matsumoto says, despite severe illnesses and
 deaths he and civilian medical researchers he has interviewed attribute to
 an ingredient in the vaccine that causes the body's autoimmune system to go
 haywire.

 He mentions Erik Julius of Morrison, Colo., ordered to sit for the anthrax
 inoculation while aboard the USS Independence in the Persian Gulf. The
 reluctant Julius reached his mother, Morrison resident Lori Greenleaf, who
 began researching the vaccine on the Internet. What she found alarmed her,
 but by the time she could communicate with her son again, he had been
 forced to take the first shot. When he refused the second shot, his
 commanding officers allegedly reduced him in rank and threatened him with
 brig time.

 As word of Greenleaf's research spread, U.S. sailors and soldiers around
 the world began contacting her. Eventually, she communicated with about
 7,000 U.S. military personnel concerned about becoming sick or dying at the
 hands of their own armed services.

 Matsumoto is a lay person whose experience has come largely at the news
 operations of NBC and Fox. Matsumoto is masterful at explaining complicated
 terms and concepts. Still, there is only so much he can do to clarify the
 science behind studies with titles such as "Effect of Stanol Ester on
 Postabsorptive Squalene and Retinyl Palmitate." The key word is "squalene."
 More on it soon.

 Matsumoto cannot state with 100 percent certainty that any of the
 individual cases he investigated so impressively are linked to anthrax
 vaccinations required of military servicemen and servicewomen. The
 circumstantial evidence is so massive, however, that it is persuasive.
 Experienced journalists, and lawyers, know that circumstantial evidence is
 as good as direct evidence if its quality is high and enough of it exists.

 Readers with faith in the goodness of the U.S. military will resist the
 hypothesis that commanders force vaccinations on troops when evidence
 exists that disabling injuries and deaths result. Historically, however,
 that faith is unjustified.

 Matsumoto provides irrefutable information from wars before the U.S.
 invasion of the Persian Gulf during 1990 that military personnel have
 served as unwitting guinea pigs in medical experiments. Those unwitting
 guinea pigs cannot sue the U.S. government for negligence; military
 servicemen and servicewomen not only surrender the right to refuse
 vaccinations, but also the right to litigate when illness or death results.

 The military's justification for the anthrax vaccinations starting around
 1990 and continuing through today seemed straightforward: Iraqi dictator
 Saddam Hussein possessed biological weapons, including deadly anthrax, that
 he might use. The cosmic irony as phrased by Matsumoto "is that after years
 of United Nations inspections and now a war that has put Saddam Hussein
 behind bars, no samples of Iraqi dried anthrax have been discovered."

  Matsumoto covered the 1990 Gulf War for NBC News from Saudi Arabia. About
 a year later, he heard reports of "a strange malady affecting returning
 veterans. The symptoms were often vague, many subjective, but remarkably
 consistent - aching joints and muscles, rashes, fatigue, weight loss,
 weight gain, hair loss, sore gums, diarrhea, nausea, swelling of hands and
 feet, short-term memory loss and headaches."

 Knowing that such symptoms could stem from numerous causes, Matsumoto paid
 little attention until 1997, when he heard an explanation from military
 sources regarding what had become known as Gulf War Syndrome. The
 explanation, involving an alleged inadvertent release of an Iraqi nerve
 agent during a U.S. bombing, struck Matsumoto as so ludicrous that he
 sensed a cover-up. So he began an investigation that lasted six years,
 resulting first in a Vanity Fair magazine exposé, then this book.

 Realizing that U.S. military doctors decided against treating veterans with
 Gulf War Syndrome, Matsumoto delved into the civilian medical research
 world, where he found a few fearless experts, especially in private
 practice at a Memphis clinic and at Tulane University, devoted to
 uncovering the truth so sick people could be treated and additional deaths
 prevented.

 "By developing an assay - a test to determine whether an individual has
 antibodies to a particular substance in his or her blood - scientists from
 Tulane University Medical School established what they say is a marker for
 Gulf War Syndrome," Matsumoto reports. "This marker identifies whether a GI
 has been injected with a substance called squalene. Those who had a
 so-called Gulf War illness consistently tested positive for antibodies to
 squalene in their blood; healthy Gulf War veterans do not have these
 antibodies."

 The Tulane researchers knew that the anthrax vaccine approved by federal
 government drug regulators and the military contained no squalene, an oil
 intended to stimulate the immune system to respond more quickly than
 normal. Matsumoto marshals circumstantial evidence to suggest that military
 doctors, realizing the licensed vaccine would not kick in fast enough to
 protect U.S. troops from an Iraqi release of anthrax, decided to experiment
 with squalene despite its known lethality.

 Matsumoto concedes the military doctors probably harbored good intentions,
 so could have defended their actions "as a hard judgment call." But their
 outright denial of using an experimental vaccine containing squalene in the
 face of seemingly overwhelming evidence to the contrary - some of that
 evidence coming from reluctant government agencies and pharmaceutical
 companies - struck Matsumoto as so heartless that he shows them no
sympathy.

 In the end, Matsumoto knows he cannot provide satisfactory answers to every
 question: "The great mystery in this story, a mystery that I cannot
 completely solve, is why the scientists developing these vaccines are
 covering up their mistake and continuing to advocate the use of a new
 vaccine that will have such devastating consequences on their own people.
 There is some evidence that the corrupting influence of money has played a
 role in this ... Let everyone be especially vigilant over companies making
 military vaccines that are intended for sale to the large and lucrative
 U.S. civilian market."

 Steve Weinberg is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a
 veteran investigative journalist.

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