How many US soldiers are going to come home psychologically messed

[democrat in Tallahassee]

up? After Vietnam, my neighbor had violent nightmares and would pull the curtains off the windows and tear up the sheets and not remember a thing about it the next day.My brother never got over his experiences in Vietnam and ended up dying in a stupid stupid accident.
These guys in Iraq are going through the same sort of hell. What will be the long-term consequences of this madness?

When will they ever learn?

[wildmanj]

1. When will they learn

NEVER--war is about tearing things down so that business people can sell their ware----peace is about rebuilding the things that were torn down so that business people can continue selling their wares

[KG]

2. this invasion is a major fuck-up

this thing will come back to bite the RWers. so typical of thier short term, next quarters P&L thinking.

[sam sarrha]

3. i was in the peace corps in an islamic republic, they were ...

carrying out volunteers that went there to HELP THE ARABS, in straight jackets, the culture shock was pretty deadly... I blacked out things for 20 years that my mind just could not deal with. I keep telling people that from what i have observed of the arabs... our goverment doesnt know what it is doing...or they just really really want to piss them off, FOR EVER.!!!

[leftofthedial]

4. Almost all of them

The ones who come home alive, that is.

We really have to make caring for returning veterans synonymous with liberal ideals.

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[Skittles]

7. well

THAT proves it.

[InkAddict]

6. And how many ...

of their babies will have birth defects - dirty, dirty bombs!