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In reply to the discussion: Soldier Held in Afghan Massacre Had Brain Injury, Marital Problems [View all]pscot
(21,024 posts)16. Horseshit
You live in this country, you own it. There are no innocents here. We are all complicit.
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Do the citizens of Syria "own" what their country is doing? Yes, actually, they do.
PavePusher
Mar 2012
#41
WE gave them our kin for this abomination against humanity. Yes there were lies & mistakes, but
patrice
Mar 2012
#23
It would not surprise me if his fitness for duty documentation went under close review, even before
MADem
Mar 2012
#18
A death penalty thread??? Aw hell, I would alert whatever I could all over THAT crap!
patrice
Mar 2012
#24
Not that there should be NO consequences, just something more constructive than the DP.
patrice
Mar 2012
#60
What worries me is how many others are deployed when they should be getting care.
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2012
#6
A few years ago my neighbor's son did one tour of Iraq, came home and tried to kill himself..
whathehell
Mar 2012
#22
If you look at the days-in-combat figures, these are the highest ever, higher even than WWII. nt
patrice
Mar 2012
#25
Therein lies the rub, the dirty little secret about those who have sustained serious
indepat
Mar 2012
#9
I can imagine the mental suffering that Afghan people go through living in a constant
lumpy
Mar 2012
#17
Yes, I read years ago that the PTSD incidence and mental illness among children in Iraq and
polly7
Mar 2012
#21
No, but impulse control is a result of TBI, coupled with PTSD, there is good reason to suspect it.
denbot
Mar 2012
#33
Blackwater, uh Xe, uh Academi is at it again, those no good kettle stirrers
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2012
#36
How does someone with a brain inhury get reassigned to a war zone???
excuse not to write
Mar 2012
#46