It's a little out of context for me to comment because I didn't hear everything that he said at the time. Just let me reflect with all of you that our country, too, has gone through this wicket of folks returning from deployments with multi-symptom problems for 20 years at least. I know from our first Gulf War group returning 20 years ago there were something like 700,000 people, but please don't hold me to the numbers. Maybe your assistants can find the original papers.
When people were offered an assessment exam, a high number of people with unexplained or multi-system illnesses had an explanation. Very few had anything to do with depleted uranium. This question has been asked and answered, maybe not to the satisfaction of all veterans, but we've also had to face this and look at it.
There have been a large number of other candidate explanations for the suffering that our veterans were experiencing when they came home. This goes back to my comment before about always being careful not to focus on one explanation for fear we miss the other ones sitting right in our midst.