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1 posted on 07/28/2005 4:13:37 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
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?......70 percent US soldiers do... NOT... develop mental disorders after Iraq mission?

.......excellent!

........over 70 percent of U.S. Public School Children are on mental drugs both legal and illegal?

.......bad fruit of NEA....ACLU.....Unions?

2 posted on 07/28/2005 4:20:34 PM PDT by maestro
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I don't come into contact with our returning troops, but this sounds far fetched. I believe our men and women are well prepared for what they are doing, and are not unstable enough to experience these types of disorders on a large scale, after returning home.

What's your take?

Of course the source is more than a bit suspect.


3 posted on 07/28/2005 4:21:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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I'm just soooo sure the ChiComs have a lock on the US militarys' mental health issues, But then again, they think One Dum Puk from North Korea is "normal".


4 posted on 07/28/2005 4:21:42 PM PDT by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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I don't believe it.


5 posted on 07/28/2005 4:22:08 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum
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Why don't they also dispatch several hundred military chaplains who have a true faith in the Lord Jesus?

Then, they will tell military personnel about the One Man Who will give all these soldiers hope, strength, and guidance, not only while over there, but also when they come back home.


6 posted on 07/28/2005 4:22:46 PM PDT by JockoManning (www.biblegateway.com)
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Coming from the Chinese Press.....I have to question the accuracy....

Some -- but certainly not 30%...

Hell -- there are folks that think I'm still wired wild, for the past 40 Years..

NO ONE ever gets 100% laid back "normal" after stomping in the shit..

Semper Fi


7 posted on 07/28/2005 4:23:32 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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Well, with less schizoid (=less PC) rules of engagement the number, whatever it may be, would surely come down.


9 posted on 07/28/2005 4:24:33 PM PDT by GSlob
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and 100% of the chinese who belong to the commie scum party are certifiably nuts!


10 posted on 07/28/2005 4:24:39 PM PDT by pissant
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Uyp, I'm going to trust a Chinese paper to tell me what my owh surgen general said.

And our surgen general is a Shrink now ?


With the psycho-lobby defining virtually any thing they want as a mental disease this does not say much.


11 posted on 07/28/2005 4:24:52 PM PDT by konaice
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Don't forget that many mental health professionals think that a belief in an objective right and wrong is an emotional disorder. They also think that homosexuality is not.


14 posted on 07/28/2005 4:27:46 PM PDT by wolfpat (dum vivimus, vivamus)
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this sounds extremely far-fetched.


15 posted on 07/28/2005 4:29:15 PM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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What percentage of the total US population has these same disorders? I'm curious how this stacks up.


17 posted on 07/28/2005 4:29:56 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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If you have ever had your friends brains blown out in front of you..or tried to comfort them as they lay dying...

Or had to treat a house full of severely wounded women and kids after it had to be taken out due to enemy fire..

And if you had to see and smell and hear these things for several months day after day...and you are only 19 yrs old..

And you don't come back with some kind of adjustment problems

You aint human...

It is the nature of the beast...and the curse on those who defend us with their lives their limbs and often their sanity

God Bless and keep them..and heal all their wounds..
those of the body and those of the soul

imo


21 posted on 07/28/2005 4:36:00 PM PDT by joesnuffy (The state always has solutions to the problems it creates...more freedom will never be a solution)
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I thought liberals consider 100% of conservatives to have mental problems.


22 posted on 07/28/2005 4:38:01 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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26 posted on 07/28/2005 4:43:06 PM PDT by megatherium (I'm holding the Queen of Diamonds)
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The symptoms include anxiety, depression, nightmares, anger and an inability to concentrate.

Easily explainable after 3 month stateside exposed to the poison of the democRATs and their partners in treason, the MSM.

27 posted on 07/28/2005 4:43:11 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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I am no expert but I wonder if the standard for "mental disorder" is now quite low thanks to all the shrinks wanting to keep themselves in a job. I would expect that there is naturally going to be some period of readjustment after a long stressful tour.

When I came back from the first Gulf War my mom was a little worried about me...thought I was "distant". Now I am sure I didn't endure the same level of stress our soldiers are enduring now (which comes with guerrilla warfare) but I just needed a little time to process what I, a 19 year old kid, had gone through and get used the world again. Many of my buddies were the same way. It was hard to identify with outsiders who hadn't lived the same life as you had the last 6 months so we probably did appear "distant" to others. I wasn't crazy or about to shoot up the grocery store. I just needed to decompress.

I wonder what some shrink would have said about me if I had been tested a couple months after I got back? Probably put me on 10 different drugs and convince me I was bat-**** crazy. I was fine after a couple months had passed.
29 posted on 07/28/2005 4:44:24 PM PDT by Gator101
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Bravo Sierra!


31 posted on 07/28/2005 4:45:30 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (China-beyond your expectations! !)
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I think all of these symptoms are to be expected with returning troops from a war zone. My hubby experienced some anxiety and a little short temperness upon his return...but nothing I would say is a mental disorder....when you are shot at, mortared and see death and destruction on a daily basis and then return home to the calm and peacefulness, it's a little hard to resume to normal....but everything is back to normal....but some may have a harder time than others..


33 posted on 07/28/2005 4:50:57 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Home of the free, because of the Brave)
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Is this a new development? Never happened before?

Well, let's look at the bright side: 100% of the mass murderers come out either unchanged or unassembled.
Either way they are no crazier than when they went in...

No saner, either.

37 posted on 07/28/2005 5:04:09 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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