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Desert Storm Oil Fires
Both army health risk assessments omit two important toxic exposures,particulate smoke and the oil rain.The health risk assessment also omit oil contaminated water and food.Both smoke and petroleum is found in the Kuwait oil fires are known to be highly carcinogenic and toxic.
Affects of the desert storm oil fires left major symptoms of burning eyes,fatigue,eye irritation, trouble breathin,nose and throat irritation,and skin rashes.
Operation Desert Shield is the United States response triggered by the invasion of the Iraqi Republican Guard on August 2, 1990.
Around six million barrels of oil were lost each day. Eventually privately contracted crews extinguished the fires, a total cost of 1.5 billion to Kuwait. By that time however the fires have burned for approximately ten months, causing widespread pollution.
In conclusion,the oil fire and other petroleum exposures are a likely major causitive a factor in gulf war illness.No research has been funded to accurately evaluate these toxic exposures.
The army air monitoring study which was done May 5 1991 through December 3 1991 did not monitor air pollution equivalent to the exposures experienced by ODS combat troops.
A telephone study of 10,051 ill Gulf War veterans found those reporting breathing or enveloped in oil fire smoke, 96%; within clear visual area of the oil fires, 90%; worked in, lived in, or made travel through the burning oil fields, 72%; and washed in water with an oily sheen, 68%. Those having oily taste to their food were 66%, and those with oily taste to the drinking water were 65%.
Desert Storm Oil Fires
President George W. Bush signed the U.S. policy in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
http://www.penfield-gill.com/presentations/CDCall-final.htm
If Saddam Hussein did not remove his troops from Kuwait by January 15 1991, the U.S. led coalition was authorized to drive them out.