Admit it, Shrub – war is gruesome and your lies are going to saddle the US Economy for 50 years with the cost of cleaning up after you.

Heckuva job, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz & Feith.

I believe I’m suffering from BPS…Bush Presidency Syndrome.

Even with the best of care, our soldiers thus affected would be facing a hard road. But to the Bush Administration nobody deserves excellent health except themselves and their friends. Add to that the thousands of vets not seeking help due to the stigma that our society places on the mentally ill and the macho culture of the Armed Services.

We’ll be dealing with this bit of fall out from George’s Iraq Adventure for decades to come.

-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud

What HAVE we gotten out of our activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, anyway?
April 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

Death and destruction, undermining of our Democracy, shredding of the U.S. Constitution, destroying the middle class and the economy of the U.S., and hatred from the world. Short list.

PTSD has been around since Nam, before that was known as battle fatigue, shell shock, as other posters have noted.

Why are you such a moron?

Why is this not considered an outrage? Is it because they “volunteered” to get their brains scrambled? Has it been fair payment for what we’ve gotten out of our activities in Iraq and Afghanistan? What HAVE we gotten out of our activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, anyway?

The term “post traumatic stress” is a new medical name it’s only been around for this war. I’m sure if you tested all past war veterans they would have “Post Traumatic Stress too
April 17th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Actually, the term originated in the mid-1970’s, largely due to problems that Vietnam vets suffer/suffered from. Earlier versions include “shell shock.” There were even reports of combat stress as early as the 6th century B.C.

From Wikipedia:

The term post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD was created in the mid 1970s.[31] Early in 1978, the term was used in a working group finding presented to the Committee of Reactive Disorders.[32] The term was formally recognised in 1980.[31] (In the DSM-IV, which is considered authoritative, the spelling “posttraumatic stress disorder” is used. Elsewhere, “posttraumatic” is often rendered as two words — “post-traumatic stress disorder” or “post traumatic stress disorder” — especially in less formal writing on the subject.)

By the way, if you are indeed a troll, as I suspect you are, it’s absolutely HILARIOUS that when I click on your name I get the White House web page…moron.