The disease that never was?

This article presents information on gulf war syndrome. Military pensions are awarded when someone's disability or death can be proved to have been caused by service in the armed forces. Veterans of the first Gulf conflict say that the illnesses many of them now suffer follow a characteristic pattern and have a specific cause related to what happened to them in the area, and should therefore be classified as a specific disease: Gulf war syndrome. The British prime minister, Tony Blair has stated that there is no use holding an official government inquiry until all the research is in.