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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.

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  • Monday, April 9, 2007 08:35 AM

    Thanks, Garry.

    Former 1CD member here, '93-'96. I was going to write pretty much what you wrote.

    I'd love to come back later and see that this thread remains relatively free from yet another manifestation of this tired line of guilty-by-association, coulda-woulda-shoulda, every-bit-as-dumb-and-rabid-as-the-far-right sort of thinking.

    Kindly keep it so.

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