Comments on: Mental Health Care Failing At-Risk Troops

Related Study Finds Battlefield Ethics Also Suffering

[samthetvcat]

"SamTheTVCat-and they probably are more likely to flip out with a gun because I am sure that this is really damaging their psyches. Imagine the things they are seeing."
Posted by rsoxfan1123

Well, that's true too . . . I'm all for gun control, but there's something just so sad about 2A being an enumerated right and because somebody serves their country they end up losing that right . . . tough situation . . .

[bluestardad]

MORE OF THAT OUTSTANDING REPUBLICAN TROOPS SUPPORT WE HAVE BEEN HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT!

According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted in June, 52 percent of Americans now believe the President deliberately distorted intelligence to make a case for war. In an Ipsos Public Affairs poll, commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org and completed October 9, 50 percent said that if Bush lied about his reasons for going to war Congress should consider impeaching him. The President's deceit is not only an abuse of power; it is a federal crime. Specifically, it is a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, which prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States.

http://www.democrats.com/node/12313

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/delavega

If you think Americas sacrifice is worth it contact your ELECTED OFFICIAL and tell them http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

The House Speakers email address: [e-mail]

[e-mail] Here is the Republican Party email address too!

[sevenveils]

During world war two the average time spent in combat by US soldiers was less than three months. Viet Nam war saw this expanded in that anyone during their time of duty could be killed by an unseen enemy.

Why today the enemy remains unseen is beyond technological reasoning.

[feelfree1]

From DemocracyNow! article:

"John Mellencamp had asked (Joan Baez) to perform with him last Friday and that she accepted his invitation."

"Mellencamp told RollingStone.com that when they asked why, the reply they got was, "She can't fit here.""

I am hoping that Mr. Mellencamp will keep the engagement, but perform only Joan Baez songs.

[rsoxfan1123]

SamTheTVCat-and they probably are more likely to flip out with a gun because I am sure that this is really damaging their psyches. Imagine the things they are seeing.

[samthetvcat]

Bush and Cheney don't care a flying flip about the troops - giving them rooms with mould on the wall at Walter Reed, sending them into a war they can't win, taxing them beyond the limits of what's humane and then not providing adequate mental health services...

You know what else they've just done too is severely restrict the troops' blogging rights... they claim it's for security reasons but the troops use their judgment and there's no indication any operations have ever been put in danger. Troops were using blogs to stay in touch with family and also to express themselves which is theraputic and now their 1A right is being severely restricted for no clear reason. And it frustrates them even more because they feel like their voices aren't being heard in the first place.

PS Everybody thought the Virginia governor's move to expand the law of who can no longer get guns was great after the VT shooting, but troops who seek treatment might actually have to be reported under this new law in which case they would lose their right to bear arms. How ironic and tragic would that be for professional soldiers to come home and then be told because they got stressed out during combat that if they get treated they might lose their right to carry a gun???

[sevenveils]

Oh Yea, don't let an opinionated singer get near US troops. Free will might rub off

[micma-2009]

So this is what Bush means by "support the troops".

[feelfree1]

The Bush regime has recently escalated their 'war on folk music'.

"The Army has denied legendary folk singer and antiwar activist Joan Baez permission to sing at a concert for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center."

www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/04/1419207

[baathsheba]

When has any admninistration in this country ever taken care of it's veterans of war?

Answer: out of sight out of mind--NEVER

As soon as the administration is through using human lives to win a really really big important war--it cannot remember who went to fight it or how they might be afterward. That's why Walter Reed Hospital, run by service members remains in decrepid conditions as all VA hospitals are.

Anyone trying to deny this should have their lying mouths wired shut.