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(AP) Sad The VA has granted only 6 percent of health claims filed by veterans of secret Cold War chemical and germ warfare tests conducted by the Pentagon   (hosted.ap.org) divider line 25
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curmudge 2008-06-19 07:16:31 PM  
I have a family member in the . . . Others could not be located or have died. is in this category.

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 07:56:50 PM  
Well duuuh. If they started paying out that would be an implicit admittance of guilt.

My condolences to you, curmudge. You will likely never see any recompense. As if there could be any.

 
baka-san [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 08:09:30 PM  
But we damn well wear the flag pin.

 
TommyymmoT [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 08:19:10 PM  
In the VA's defense though, they did give them all a really cool "Support Our Troops" ribbon sticker for their cars.

 
Ennuipoet [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 08:46:44 PM  
As a veteran I am really getting a kick out of these repl...

/suddenly dies from "unclassified cause"

 
Heroic Poser 2008-06-19 09:08:08 PM  
Don't post spoilers in the headline!

 
NeuroticRocker [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-19 10:15:51 PM  
I blame Bush

/GObama!

 
Falcc 2008-06-19 10:20:33 PM  
NeuroticRocker: I blame Bush Reagan

/GObama!


Try and keep your assholes straight.

 
Fireproof 2008-06-19 10:28:22 PM  
Falcc: NeuroticRocker: I blame Bush Reagan

/GObama!

Try and keep your assholes straight.


I think you may need to as well. Unless Reagan did something to veterans benefits I don't know about.

TFA: The tests were conducted at sea and above a half-dozen U.S. states from 1962-1973 to see how U.S. ships would withstand chemical and germ assaults and how such weapons would disperse.

I blame Kennedy, Johnston, and Nixon.

 
Falcc 2008-06-19 10:33:26 PM  
Fireproof: Falcc: NeuroticRocker: I blame Bush Reagan

/GObama!

Try and keep your assholes straight.

I think you may need to as well. Unless Reagan did something to veterans benefits I don't know about.

TFA: The tests were conducted at sea and above a half-dozen U.S. states from 1962-1973 to see how U.S. ships would withstand chemical and germ assaults and how such weapons would disperse.

I blame Kennedy, Johnston, and Nixon.


The day I start reading the articles and the day I stop blaming Reagan for everything are the same day, and I'll be damned if it comes soon.

/Ok, so I just fail

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 10:35:49 PM  
Fireproof: Falcc: NeuroticRocker: I blame Bush Reagan

/GObama!

Try and keep your assholes straight.

I think you may need to as well. Unless Reagan did something to veterans benefits I don't know about.

TFA: The tests were conducted at sea and above a half-dozen U.S. states from 1962-1973 to see how U.S. ships would withstand chemical and germ assaults and how such weapons would disperse.

I blame Kennedy, Johnston, and Nixon.


Reagan must have done something to veterans benefits that you don't know about. He cut them. (Not related to the article).

 
Daddakamabb 2008-06-19 10:47:12 PM  
Sabyen91: Fireproof: Falcc: NeuroticRocker: I blame Bush Reagan

/GObama!

Try and keep your assholes straight.

I think you may need to as well. Unless Reagan did something to veterans benefits I don't know about.

TFA: The tests were conducted at sea and above a half-dozen U.S. states from 1962-1973 to see how U.S. ships would withstand chemical and germ assaults and how such weapons would disperse.

I blame Kennedy, Johnston, and Nixon.

Reagan must have done something to veterans benefits that you don't know about. He cut them. (Not related to the article).


You blew it up! God damn you all to hell!

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 10:50:35 PM  
Daddakamabb: Sabyen91: Fireproof: Falcc: NeuroticRocker: I blame Bush Reagan

/GObama!

Try and keep your assholes straight.

I think you may need to as well. Unless Reagan did something to veterans benefits I don't know about.

TFA: The tests were conducted at sea and above a half-dozen U.S. states from 1962-1973 to see how U.S. ships would withstand chemical and germ assaults and how such weapons would disperse.

I blame Kennedy, Johnston, and Nixon.

Reagan must have done something to veterans benefits that you don't know about. He cut them. (Not related to the article).

You blew it up! God damn you all to hell!


My deepest apologies.

 
Falcc 2008-06-19 10:54:32 PM  
Sabyen91: Reagan must have done something to veterans benefits that you don't know about. He cut them. (Not related to the article).

Ha! I was right after all! You can't go wrong betting on the failures of the last three republican presidents. If you can come up with something stupid and greedy one of them has done it.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 10:55:35 PM  
Falcc: Sabyen91: Reagan must have done something to veterans benefits that you don't know about. He cut them. (Not related to the article).

Ha! I was right after all! You can't go wrong betting on the failures of the last three republican presidents. If you can come up with something stupid and greedy one of them has done it.


Well, when it comes to personal experience, it somehow becomes...personal. I hate that bastard.

 
GodsTumor 2008-06-19 11:00:00 PM  
Sadam had to be taken out...
He gassed his own people!

 
Bag of Hammers [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-19 11:08:23 PM  
Jesus farking Christ, I put a magnet on my SUV, what else do these blood suckers want! Bootstraps people! Find 'em!!!

/off to the gym in 26 minutes

 
pvd021 2008-06-19 11:11:28 PM  
Use and Abuse, that's what the military is all about. Like my friend said, what do you think should be the proper pay of a job which has the risk of bullets rockets and mortars whizzing by your head and exploding in your face?

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 11:16:37 PM  
pvd021: Use and Abuse, that's what the military is all about. Like my friend said, what do you think should be the proper pay of a job which has the risk of bullets rockets and mortars whizzing by your head and exploding in your face?

Heh, that should make you a millionaire.

 
24-Bit Voxel 2008-06-19 11:42:02 PM  
Why does the VA hate America?

 
McCaintheUniter 2008-06-19 11:53:58 PM  
And you idiots want to turn all of healthcare over to these dolts. No thank you.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2008-06-19 11:54:38 PM  
McCaintheUniter: And you idiots want to turn all of healthcare over to these dolts. No thank you.

No, let's keep Enron!!!!

 
KramericaWallet 2008-06-20 12:56:59 AM  
Yeah right. Everyone knows the pentagon doesn't conduct tests. If they did, they'd have to scrap 85% of their programs (not the ones that fail, just the ones that fail to even show up on the measurement scale).

The only tests they do over at the pentagon are those cute online time-wasters and cosmo (R) quizzes.

 
ifarkthereforiam 2008-06-20 01:15:17 AM  
Meh. It's like the people who worked at the Rockie Flats Atomic site and later got sick. They are dieing now and in a few years they will all be gone. Problem solved.

 
The Why Not Guy [TotalFark] 2008-06-20 01:46:14 PM  
Disgusting. Infuriating. Surprising.

 
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