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Gulf War Gas

Over the past couple of months, the Pentagon has revealed that there's a possibility that some vets may have been exposed to chemical weapons when the U.S. military blew up an Iraqi weapons munition that contained chemical weaons. Danny talks with Dave Parks of the Birmingham News who has been following this issue for several years now about how the Pentagon has been handling the issue since the early '90's.

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