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"But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses."

War, Cause, Causes, Illness

"It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death."

Death, People, Knowledge, Information

"I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick."

People, Blood, Soldiers

"I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in."

Business, Health, Home, Nature

"I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness."

War, Cause, Illness

"I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health."

Health, Stress

"First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot."

War, First, Soldiers

"The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents."

War,

"But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war."

War,

"What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I."

Health, War, Troops, World

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