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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT CONFIRMS GULF WAR VETERANS WERE BECOMING VIOLENT: DECORATED GULF WAR VETERAN TO BE EXECUTED MARCH 18, 2003. The American Gulf War Veterans Association has obtained documentation confirming that the Senate Veterans� Affairs Committee, chaired by John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), had knowledge as early as 1993 that Gulf War veterans were becoming violent. This information is considered to be critical with respect to our veterans again being placed in harm�s way. This also comes at a time when according to The Guardian newspaper: (www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2485659,00.html) �With another war with Iraq looming, the federal government is poised to execute a decorated Gulf War veteran who claims severe brain damage from his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas led him to kill. Unless President Bush or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, Louis Jones, Jr. will be executed by lethal injection Tuesday at the U.S. Penitentiary near Terre Haute, Indiana. Jones has asked the president to commute his death sentence to life without parole, citing what he says is evidence he suffered severe, personality-altering brain damage from exposure to sarin nerve gas in March 1991, after the Gulf War ended. Jones� attorney, Timothy Floyd, said his client�s exposure to the gas, his decorated military career (Army Ranger 23 years) and lack of prior criminal record make him different than the other 23 inmates on federal death row. He said severe brain damage from the nerve gas made him prone to violent outbursts. �It�s sort of a mystery, but the answer to it is what happened to him over there in Iraq.� The AGWVA has received �after action reports� confirming that troops were exposed to nerve gas and chemicals and testimony obtained that the order was received from Schwartzkopf�s Central Command to detonate the 100 hundred bunkers (each the size of a football field) in a complex called Khamisiyah. In December 2000, the Pentagon informed Jones that he, along with about 130,000 other soldiers may have been exposed to low levels of nerve gas wafting from a weapons depot that troops had destroyed near the southern Iraqi city of Khamisyah. Evidence supporting the �violence� that Gulf War vets are experiencing is found in �Senate Hearing 103-647 entitled �Persian Gulf War Illnesses: Are We Treating Veterans Right?� The Veterans Affairs hearing quotes former Senator Don Riegle, (D-MI), as saying: �A number of months ago, several Persian Gulf War veterans came to me from Michigan to complain about the lack of response to serious medical problems they were experiencing of the type that Senator Campbell referred to. Their symptoms include muscle and joint pain, fatigue, bleeding gums, rashes, sores, stomach pains, bleeding from the rectum, respiratory problems, hair loss, headaches, memory loss, night sweats, insomnia, and also mood swings where people, in some instances, would get very angry. By that, I mean, they would experience periods of violence which were way out of the pattern of their behavior before they went into the service.� Dr. Robert Haley, an epidemiologist with the Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, says: �There is now a compelling involuntary link between Mr. Jones� neutotoxic war injury and his inexplicable crime,� he wrote in a letter to Floyd. Those who sat on the Veterans Affairs Committee, November 16, 1993 and are aware of this testimony are: John D. Rockeller IV, West Virginia (Chairman Dennis DeConcini, Arizona Bob Graham, Florida Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Thomas A. Daschele, South Dakota Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Colorado Frank H. Murkowski, Alaska Strom Thurmond, South Carolina Alan K. Simpson, Wyoming Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania James A. Jeffords, Vermont The AGWVA encourages people to contact the President of the United States about this decision and to ask that he consider life without parole. ### American Gulf War Veterans Assoc. www.gulfwarvets.com The Power Hour Radio Show www.thepowerhour.com
