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Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:00 AM

Post-traumatic futility disorder

Disillusionment with war is an overlooked psychological liability on the battlefield, experts say -- and could lead to higher rates of PTSD among U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

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  • Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:46 AM

    Powell is an idiot

    if our soldiers are disillusioned it is the fault of the liberal elites, who are continually telling us that the war is worthless, that it is only for oil, that Bush brought down the towers, that the soldiers are stupid, that america is not worth fighting for, that there is no threat, and alot of other nonsense. we are at war and powell travels around saying the army is "broken", this from a soldier. He and his ilk are the ones breaking it. and this article is a pretense of caring about our military. the real attitude is like that expressed by the liberal professor at columbia, that there should be a million mogadishus. there is something wrong with all of you that you can't support your country in a time of war.

    But there is one thing you liberals will not be able to repeat from the vietnam war. we will not turn on the soldiers as they come home. that is why there have not been massive demonstrations. we are not going to put them down and insult them.

    Orwell wrote that we (that includes you liberals) all sleep at night because there are strong men with guns keeping us safe.

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