Author Topic: Injured troops (Read 724 times)

wrag · « **on:** March 12, 2007, 05:37:47 AM »

being sent back to war zone while still injured?

http://www.salon.com/news/2007/03/11/fort_benning/

This doesn't look good!

eagl · « **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2007, 06:01:02 AM »

It's the new military, run by MBAs and lawyers, answerable to the almighty buck and congressional auditors. Nobody in the military is suprised anymore by anything like the stuff that has hit the news. A lot of the news reports are blown out of proportion but even the stuff that is completely true is not a suprise.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #2 on:** March 12, 2007, 06:15:32 AM »

Bring the rest of the troops home. This is getting rediculous now. Afghanistan makes sense, now it's just kids getting mamed and ridiculed when they come stateside.

eagl · « **Reply #3 on:** March 12, 2007, 06:43:07 AM »

I especially liked it when they sent the re-enlistment paperwork to the dead guys. That was neat.

oboe · « **Reply #4 on:** March 12, 2007, 06:45:20 AM »

What kids are being ridiculed, and where is this taking place, Masherbrum?

eagl · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2007, 06:47:35 AM »

masher might be talking about the whackos who were taunting the latest stryker brigade to deploy. They lined the streets taunting the troops on the way by, as a way to show their "support".

It's pretty much the same old not-very-fonda-jane influence. She and those like her can't pass up a chance to crap on anyone who swore an oath to defend anything larger than themselves.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #6 on:** March 12, 2007, 07:10:54 AM »

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Originally posted by eagl
masher might be talking about the whackos who were taunting the latest stryker brigade to deploy. They lined the streets taunting the troops on the way by, as a way to show their "support".

It's pretty much the same old not-very-fonda-jane influence. She and those like her can't pass up a chance to crap on anyone who swore an oath to defend anything larger than themselves.

Yes eagl. Even though I'm not a veteran, some of us civilians really do care about the welfare and relative safety of the men and women who are lynchpins, in mkaing the US the best country on the planet.

I may only be 33 years old, but I'm sick and tired of veterans being pissed on. Not only that, but having to read some of the BS that's happening isn't helping them "feel needed" either.

lazs2 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 12, 2007, 08:12:26 AM »

It is our worst national shame that we have NEVER treated our wounded vets as we should.

lazs

oboe · « **Reply #8 on:** March 12, 2007, 08:28:40 AM »

That is a bad deal. I imagine there will always be anti-war protests, but I thought leaving the troops out of it was one lesson we as a Nation learned from the Viet Nam experience. That, and I figured this just must be a more apathetic generation of young people than they were in the late-60s.

Where did that happen? I never saw it on the news.

Those protests aside, Masherbrum, the BS you refer to that we shouldn't have to read about - are you talking about the conditions at Walter Reed's Building 18 that we learned about recently? Or the subject of this link, where injured soldiers medical profiles are being altered so they can be sent back to Iraq?

Are you mad that we have to read about it, or that it is occuring? Are you suggesting it would be better for the troops if these situations weren't being reported in the media?

eagl · « **Reply #9 on:** March 12, 2007, 09:05:10 AM »

Google has been bombed with anti-war links to the protests, so here's one of the anti-war pieces. It is so filled with mis-information (apparently Iraq is practically glowing from the tonnes of depleted uranium we've distributed over every square inch of Iraq) that it's tough to get the real story, but it's in there.

http://community.livejournal.com/antiwar/2918351.html

The quoted soldier is already disgruntled (he says he's totally against the war) but what the article doesn't talk about are the chanted slogans and signs trashing NCOs and of course those evil officers who are responsible for the whole war.

Here's one article that paints a different picture of the protests.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/opinion/16864338.htm

Looking at pictures of the protests, it's easy for me to believe the kansas city star version.

oboe · « **Reply #10 on:** March 12, 2007, 10:17:25 AM »

I know this is subjective, but protests have always seemed ugly to me, no matter what is being protested.

Michelle Malkin is one of those extreme journalist I thoroughly avoid contact with. That article may have been printed in the KS Star, but it was her column.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #11 on:** March 13, 2007, 07:56:20 AM »

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Originally posted by oboe
Those protests aside, Masherbrum, the BS you refer to that we shouldn't have to read about - are you talking about the conditions at Walter Reed's Building 18 that we learned about recently? Or the subject of this link, where injured soldiers medical profiles are being altered so they can be sent back to Iraq?

Are you mad that we have to read about it, or that it is occuring? Are you suggesting it would be better for the troops if these situations weren't being reported in the media?

I grew up in a household of veterans (grandpa USMC, dad Army) and have a bunch of friends in all branches. I'm just fed up with the way vets get treated by the people who "piss on em when able, but then support them in the name of conformity" when the need suits them.

I never served, but if I see one passing by in the mall, sidewalk or anywhere. I will always acknowledge them and thank them for their service. The conditions at Walter Reed sicken me, because these kids are coming hom in worse shape than which they arrived in the first place. But to "come stateside" for medical treatment to a dilpated hospital has to be a further kick in the nuts.

The media is a big portion of it. IMO, keep out of the loop. Let the Military deal with it.

JB88 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 13, 2007, 08:01:06 AM »

why keep the media out when they are the only ones bringing it to the light of day?

lazs2 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 13, 2007, 08:10:39 AM »

There have always been abuses of veterans.. The media can do a service by exposing these abuses. It is a shame that they only do it when it suits their politics tho. Oh well.. it is what we have come to expect from them.

That is why they are dying off.. so hidebound and blinded in their cause that people are turning them off. No amount of makeup or hairspray can save em.

lazs

Masherbrum · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2007, 08:14:41 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
There have always been abuses of veterans.. The media can do a service by exposing these abuses. It is a shame that they only do it when it suits their politics tho. lazs

Perfectly said lazs.