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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.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Friday, January 19, 2007 09:03 PM

    America to today's vets: "Fuck You!"

    I think the one poster put it succinctly: "I don't support the

    troops, Fuck them!". This is and has been the true attitude of

    this country since Vietnam. Most Americans today have no connection

    to the war and they truly do not care nor are they ever going to.

    They live in their pampered extravagent affluent arrogance.

    Think of it as spitting on the veterans and calling them "baby-

    killers" in a more sophisticated 21st-Century way.

    —SpinnBuhldakk

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