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[Politics on HuffingtonPost.com] Alex Abella: Chalabi, RAND and the Iraq War: Khalilzad was named US ambassador to the Iraqis in exile, then ambassador to Afghanistan, then to Iraq, and finally to the United Nations; and, of course, Cheney became the most powerful vice .
[POLITICS ~ UP CLOSE & PERSONAL!!!] 12000 VETERANS PER YEAR TRY TO COMMIT SUICIDE!!!: The report revealed that nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan -- that's 300,000 men and women -- have symptoms of post-traumatic stress or major depression.
[The Situationist] The Disturbing Mental Health Situation of Returning Soldiers: The study, released on Thursday by the RAND Corporation, reported that about 19 percent of the troops said they might have experienced a traumatic brain injury, usually the result of powerful roadside bombs, yet a majority of those troops had never been evaluated for such an injury.
[MaziqueMedicine] The War”¦: study released this month said 20% of the roughly 1.6 million military personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. It found that half of the military personnel had friends who were seriously wounded or killed, while about 45% saw dead or wounded civilians.
[REAL NEWS AND POLITICS!!!] WHAT THE WAR IN IRAQ IS REALLY ABOUT!!!: Unless the US is able to purchase or rig the upcoming Iraqi election, Sadr is likely to emerge as the dominant figure. This would be a highly unfavorable development for the Bush Regime’s hopes of establishing its colonial rule behind the facade of a Maliki fake democracy.
[uspolitics] 300000 US Terrorists from Iraq, Afghanistan have mental problems ...: "There is a major health crisis facing those men and women who have served our nation in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Terri Tanielian, the project's co-leader and a researcher at the nonprofit RAND.
[Badger Herald: Op-Ed] Tragedies of war go beyond bases: Many soldiers in Iraq have benefited from the advances in modern medicine and have in many instances avoided what would have been mortal wounds in Vietnam or Korea. However, thousands still come home to a tortured existence of psychological trauma caused either by brain damage sustained from injury or shock or simply by the horror and tragedy witnessed abroad.
[The Official Website of Representative David Duke, phd] What the Iraq War is About: record is so sterling that he is one critic of the war whose patriotism cannot be seriously questioned. He shows how the Iraq War is not a patriotic war in any sense, but an anti-American catastrophe orchestrated by Jewish supremacists serving the interests of a foreign nation. It is a war that does irreparable harm to America.
[Bainbridge Notebook] Veteran waits for City response on hiring policy: A seperate note about Iraq veterans joining our police department. If I just came back from my most resent tour in Iraq and am feeling totally burned out by the tension and violence in life, is that where I want a job or a place that it would be healthy for me to work?
[Wayne Allyn Root's Blog] WAR and Peace: Just because the magnitude of the Iraqi quagmire is on a different scale than Vietnam does not make it "a success.” The imploding economy, plummeting stock market, rampant joblessness, skyrocketing oil prices, future decades of billion dollar occupation in Iraq, and horrifying national deficit contradict the statement that "our commander-in-chief is doing a great job.”
[Peter Mclaren] The Rand Corporation by Chalmers Johnson-University of Imperialism: “Hap” Arnold, chief of staff of the Army Air Corps from 1941 until it became the Air Force in 1947, and his chief wartime scientific adviser, the aeronautical engineer Theodore von Kármán. In the beginning, RAND was a free-standing division within the Douglas Aircraft Company which, after 1967, merged with McDonnell Aviation to form the McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Corporation and, after 1997, was absorbed by Boeing.
[Justmytruth's Weblog] A Congress Of Cowards: The latest and most comprehensive study of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has concluded that nearly 1 in every 5 veterans is suffering from depression or stress disorders and that many are not getting adequate care.
[Global News Blog] Iraq - Iraqi forces seize last Sadr bastion in Basra: US (AFP via ...: Officers will fight Taliban, drug trade Diverted at the last minute from its planned deployment to Iraq, a battalion of Marines has arrived here to take up a critical mission: training Afghan police to hold the line against Taliban insurgents.
[Comments for WE Blog] Comment on Study: 300000 vets face mental problems by Phantom: PTSD statistics in children and teens reveal that up to more than 40% have endured at least one traumatic event, resulting in the development of PTSD in up to 15% of girls and 6% of boys. On average, 3%-6% of high school students in the United States and as many as 30%-60% of children who have survived specific disasters have PTSD.
[LEFT OF DAYTON] VA Debated PR Plan on Vets’ Suicides/By Jason Leopold: “The scope of PTSD in the long term is enormous and must be taken seriously,” Sullivan told a congressional committee in July 2007. “When all of our 1.6 million service members eventually return home from Iraq and Afghanistan, based on the current rate of 20 percent, VA may face up to 320,000 total new veterans diagnosed with PTSD.”
[AM 1090's Weblog] Democracy NOW! Headlines: Meanwhile, a new study by the Pentagon’s premier military educational institute has concluded the war in Iraq has become “a major debacle” and the outcome “is in doubt” despite the so-called surge. The opening line of the report says, “Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle.” The study was released by the National Institute for Strategic Studies, a Pentagon research center.
[The Hanscom Family Weblog] Why Am I Not Surprised?: SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (OneWorld) - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions from roadside bombs.
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