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Monday, April 9, 2007 12:00 AM

Injured troops shipped back into battle

Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Monday, April 9, 2007 03:32 PM

    So anyway my polemic-based writers...

    What do you in fact do with middle aged people who are otherwise physically unfit to work at Home Depot but who are uninjured? Bring them all home because they're fat? What about the diabetics and asthmatics?

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