Sunday, April 6, 2008

Occupation Iraq: Stressed-Out Soldiers

Readers, I sometimes rage in hurt and bitterness about the whole "Support the Troops" thing, since I never wanted them going in the first place.

I knew the case was horse shit and Bush was a liar!

Anyhow, what I want is these guys home with all the health care they need -- priority one!

Which they aren't getting, but that's another story, right?

So forgive me if my commentary is a little angry when I read this
:

"Stress of returning troops worries Army"/

"by Thom Shanker, New York Times News Service | April 6, 2008

Yeah, I saw this on their web site but I didn't want to bother.

This is the same paper that has lied about the invasion and occupation
for five fucking years, right?


WASHINGTON - Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent back to the front again and again under plans that call for troop numbers to be sustained at high levels in Iraq for this year and beyond.

Among combat troops sent to Iraq for the third or fourth time, more than one in four show signs of anxiety, depression, or acute stress, according to an official Army survey of soldiers' mental health.

The stress of long and multiple deployments to Iraq is just one of the concerns being voiced by senior military officers in Washington....

Well, you know, you guys sent them there, told us all a bunch of horse shit lies to do it, so I'm sorry I'm not sharing the concern.

BRING THEM ALL HOME, CARE FOR THEM and NO MORE INVASIONS and OCCUPATIONS, 'kay?!!!!!!!

WHAT is SO HARD about THAT?!?

Either that, or SHADDUP!!!!!!!!!!

In a meeting with Bush late last month in advance of Petraeus's testimony, the Joint Chiefs of Staff expressed deep concern about stress on the force, senior Defense Department and military officials said....

You know, I really don't want to hear it. FUCK YOU GUYS!!!!

Although, you college and high-school kids might want to take a listen.

There is a THIRD INVASION (Iran) and DRAFT on deck.

Just read between the lines, readers.

The Army and the rest of the service chiefs have endorsed Petraeus's recommendations for continued high troop levels in Iraq.

Then FUCK YOU GUYS and YOUR WHINING, JCS!!!!

Because YOU FUCKED the TROOPS, not me!!!!!!!!!

But Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and General George W. Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, and their top deputies also have warned that the war in Iraq should not be permitted to inflict an unacceptable toll on the military as a whole.

What could that possibly mean? We are leaving? No.

"Our readiness is being consumed as fast as we build it," General Richard A. Cody, the Army vice chief of staff, said in stark comments delivered to Congress last week. "Lengthy and repeated deployments with insufficient recovery time have placed incredible stress on our soldiers and our families, testing the resolve of our all-volunteer force like never before."

That walks like, smells like, and sounds like a DRAFT, readers!!!

Oh, I'm sorry, I meant "National Service."

You wouldn't want to codge out on "National Service," would you, ungrateful snot-nose?

If you do, you won't be able to go to college!!

How's that?!

Oh, and by the way, parents, they will be COMING FOR YOUR DAUGHTERS, too!!!!

Beyond the Army, members of the Joint Chiefs have also told the president that the continued troop commitment to Iraq means that there is a significant level of risk should another crisis erupt elsewhere in the world. Any mission could be carried out successfully, the chiefs believe, but the operation would be slower, longer, and costlier in lives and equipment than if the armed forces were not so strained...."

Now why would they be talking about ANOTHER WAR, the STRAIN and LENGTH of TIME if they were not PLANNING for IRAN, readers?!?!

Why even bother BRINGING IT UP? INSANITY?!

Unless....???


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