Congressional Act Text
See also 38 USC - Chapter 51
Cite 38 USC Sec 501
Veterans Claims Assistance Act 2000
Pub. L No. 106-475, 114 Stat. 2096 (2000)
("VCAA") (effective on Thursday, 9 November 2000)
signed by President William Clinton @ Nov. 9, 2000
(You didn't think Bush signed it, did you ?!)
Topic: Give Gulf War Vets 'Benefit of the Doubt
Conf: Claims/Research, Msg: 21016
From: Gee Eye (rlbfaith@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 6/10/2002 02:38 AM
NGWRC: Give Gulf War Vets 'Benefit of the Doubt'
Last month, Defense Department spokesman Dr. Michael Kilpatrick
briefed Gulf War veteran leaders about the Khamisiyah chemical
warfare agent exposure plume, and during the briefing he said that
DoD's effort to explain the possibilities of exposure to sarin and
cyclosarin was non-scientific. Subsequently, Steve Robinson,
Executive Director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, wrote
the Department of Veterans Affairs, declaring that "Gulf War veteran
leaders are stunned to hear his comments because they represent a
reversal in DoD policy."
Robinson added that "the benefit of the doubt should be in favor
of the veteran when the veteran seeks health care or compensation
benefits for medical conditions associated with chemical warfare
agent exposure." Therefore, the only fair and reasonable solution
for ill Gulf War veterans is for VA to affirm the presumption that
every deployed Gulf War veteran was exposed to chemical weapons,
he asserted
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