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Posted on 08/28/2006 9:56:25 AM PDT by ncountylee
WASHINGTON -- As head of the Veteran's Administration under President Jimmy Carter, Vietnam veteran Max Cleland was involved in setting up VA Vet centers to help soldiers returning from war get counseling and readjust to life back home.
Now Cleland has revealted that he's suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and getting help from those same counseling programs he helped create.
Cleland, who lost three limbs in the war, said he didn't get much help for his own psychological wounds when he returned from battle.
The former U.S. Senator from Georgia described his symptoms to Channel 2 Action News reporter Alison Burns.
He said he feels depressed, has developed a sense of hyper-vigilance about his security and has difficulty sleeping.
He believes the Iraq war has, in part, triggered his condition.
"I realize my symptoms are avoidance, not wanting to connect with anything dealing with the [Iraq] war, tremendous sadness over the casualties that are taken, a real identification with that.....I've tried to disconnect and disassociate from the media. I don't watch it as much. I'm not engrossed in it like I was," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsbtv.com ...
Cleland finds a new way to say "it's Bush's fault."
BDS
I'm so sick of this fumbling idiot.
A majority perhaps, even?
what a little whore, LOL
not fit to be a "john".
Having said that and moving on, Max Cleland is a flaming idiot.
OMG!! I feel sorry for him because he lost 3 limbs, but he's depressed because he's a MEAN LIBERAL....mena liberals have NO JOY in their pitiful lives. They live to DESTROY people and institutions and push DEVIANT behavior on decent slobs. Liberalsim is the Mental Disorder that he is suffering from....and he probably has NO deep religious beliefs about God and Jesus.
I called him a "flaming" idiot, but I will gladly concede to your "fumbling" idiot label.
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Or...maybe the trigger was running from the Capitol building on 9/11 while smoke poured from the Pentagon and skyscrapers collapsed in NY?
I used to work for the State of Georgia. Cleland was Secretary of State at the time. He was the most despised man I have ever come across. I had heard story after story about this terrible boss and when I found out it was a triple amputee I couldn't believe it. SOS employees told me that they got over the handicap excuse real fast. Nastiness is nastiness.
Max's injuries were not battle related.
Give him credit ----He's both.
Thanks. ;)
Or...maybe the trigger was running from the Capitol building on 9/11 while smoke poured from the Pentagon and skyscrapers collapsed in NY?
This guy is such a narcissist. He will do anything for media exposure. He has no inner peace. Everything is someone else's fault. He is pathetic. We can only hope this is 14 minutes and 59 seconds.
Does this mean the DemocRATS aren't doing as well in internal polling as their stooges in the MSM want us to believe?
He didn't look depressed while guffawing at Bill Maher's Bush-bashing jokes the other night.
Yet another side effect of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
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