How is this different from any war, may I ask. Some people are always affected more than others and some are mentally hurt by trauma and the routine of being a soldier. Since he didnt show any signs of a problem...I dont know what anyone would have done.

Plus this story is clearly spruced up to attack the admninistration and a lot of the incidents involved could have been unrelated. The war in Iraq is a very limited war on the scale of wars, its not constant fighting and battle and slaughter as media likes to commonly sell it as. Still I suppose the army could have done a little more or at least checked up on him but its not the fault of our leaders for the decisions of select military officers.

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