2,500:
By on May 7th, 2007 at 10:36 am
2,500:
Number of troops infected in the last four years by a “parasitic disease rarely seen in United States but common in the Middle East,” picked up “because of massive deployments to remote combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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Yah, it’s called Neocontivitis.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:42 amThat disease wouldn’t be called “manifest destiny” would it?
May 7th, 2007 at 10:43 amMay we call this Turd Blossom Disease?
May 7th, 2007 at 10:43 amSorry, Badmoonman, it can’t be Neocontivitis.
They are never found anywhere near a combat zone.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:47 amI wonder if it’s remnets of some of Regan, Rummy’s WMD’s they sold to Hussaine back in the good old day’s…. Not…..Blessings
May 7th, 2007 at 10:47 amYeah, so what? All you are talking about is putting the troops in harm’s way. They signed up to put be in harm’s way. Besides, our fearless Emperor doesn’t care about putting them in harm’s way, so why should we care? I say to hell with the soldiers. All hail the Commander-in-Chief!
/sarcasm off
May 7th, 2007 at 10:48 amIn all seriousness, though, it is another thing that the VA Hospitals are going to have to use their underfunded resourses to treat, and something that obviously will be affecting the future health of our troops well past the end of the whatever constitutes the next “mission accomplished”. I feel bad about the jokes I made earlier, but sometimes gallows humor is all you’ve got.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:55 amI wonder how much of this can be attributed to the insane water treatment practices KBR-Halliburton had in their contracts. Sen. Dorgan had nauseating hearings last year where KBR admitted that they made soldiers shower in filter backwash water, which is effectively eight times dirtier than untreated river water.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:16 ambut sometimes gallows humor is all you’ve got.
Comment by steerpike
If Chimpy keeps it up, yes, that’s all we WILL have left.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:24 amI cannot find the link but yesterday I was reading that 600 of these troops started with a little gash and ended up having legs or arms amputeed
May 7th, 2007 at 11:37 amWhy do parasites hate Americas freedoms?
May 7th, 2007 at 11:48 amHow fitting…Parasites at war & bigger parasites at home, insisting we stay the course in a dead man’s game.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:52 amAnother bad side effect of Bush’s bogus war. Also they are having problems cleaning up this weekends tornado’s in Kansas due to the National guard and their equipment is now in Iraq. Thanks Bush, you knucklehead. Is is January 2009 yet??
May 7th, 2007 at 12:09 pmNow that sucks. You can shoot back at an enemy. you can’t shoot at a parasite.
May 7th, 2007 at 12:50 pmTechnically, one cannot be infected with a parasite. The correct term is infested…
May 7th, 2007 at 12:52 pmI don’t know what the name of this is but my cousin nearly died from it a couple of weeks ago. He got in in Afghanistan and they didn’t know how to treat it so they sent him to Iraq to get treatment.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:09 pmAlong with the mental issues that the veterans will bring with them from Iraq, there is the threat of infectious disease, parasites, etc. that will inevitable find their way to the US using the troops as hosts.
This is another added cost to the occupation of Iraq that American society will be paying for years to come.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:16 pmThe GOP way of supporting our troops.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:24 pmI was reading that 600 of these troops started with a little gash and ended up having legs or arms amputeed
GAH. That is horrifying.
May 8th, 2007 at 1:30 amThank you, Halliburton, for your heroic efforts in providing our courageous troops with a safe, sanitary water supply.
May 8th, 2007 at 9:16 am