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Originally Posted by Liberal-hater
*** You know, placing the blame for a soldier's death or a soldier's struggles with combat related PTSD on the president is simply idiotic. We have an all volunteer military, and every one knows the risks of serving.
I happen to be a 100% disabled combat veteran with PTSD. I spent 4 months in 1992 as an inpatient at the West Haven, Connecticut Veterans hospital for PTSD. No less than 6 former and present combat veteran patients of my stay there committed suicide. While family members had a beef with certain psychiatrists there and or with the hosptial protocol, not one of them mentioned then president Bill Clinton as being responsible for their loss.
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He was a WW II vet - PTSD didn't exist then, at least not officially.
My beef is with the fact that we knew going into this war that this would happen - but the current occupants were so set on "they will throw flowers and hold parades" that nothing was done to prepare for a huge influx of severely wounded soldiers - wounded physically and mentally. The death toll in Iraq has been minimal comparitively - which means the amount of critically wounded has been huge - yet no efforts were made during the early days of the war to plan for this overwhelming deluge. Now we hear that VA staff are instructed not to even diagnose soldiers with PTSD, because it's tooexpensive to treat them. Walter reed - the crown jewel of the VA - is rampant with mold and rats. Good people are being treated as disposable butt wipes by the govt.
And the neocons are squarely behind the lack of planning for these wars/ Whatever happened to the supposed virtues of taking responsibility and fixing problems. Deflect, spin - the more you tolerate it the more you encourage it. I don't give a rat's booty about Clinton - Bush has been where the buck stops for 7 years now. Why do you object to anyone pinning him down?