It's Oct 2008 ..... What Issues Will Vets Be Faced With?

[AbsoluteArmorer]

Tell us what you think veterans will be faced with two years from now.

[NMDemDist2]

1. massive PSTD, depleted uranium side effects, alchol and drug abuse

and ongoing prosthetic needs

:cry:

[Monkeyman]

2. PTSD cases by the1000;s returning troops

Still will have that dam hand picked Bush's Veterans Commission wanting to review all cases and close VA hospitals. Finding out how bad DU has hit our troops. The VFW and American Legion still backing Republicans. If the Dem's don't pull off insured funding for health care more vets losing benefits.

[nam78_two]

3. I expect these assholes

to start cutting even more funding for veterans :(.

I was discussing this with a friend the other day and we were agreeing that the returning vets, many of them whom will be severely traumatized psychologically, will receive NO support whatsoever from the pigs in the administration-at least not the Bushies.

I mean, we are already hearing about the homeless vets, the severely psychologically traumatized vets and those who are coming back with massive drug addiction problems. Without a great increase in government funding, I see a lot of vets having great difficulty getting back into a normal life :cry:.

[Ezlivin]

4. Homelessness

When you are a broken person and there is no help you end up on the streets.

I wish all these yellow-ribbon sporting "I support the troops" people would take an hour and walk through their closest VA hospital.

But "supporting the troops" is only an empty slogan; god only knows what would happen if these clueless fucks actually saw the reality of what is happening to our veterans.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. A $2 magnetic ribbon is their idea of making a huge sacrifice.

It makes me ill.

[Monkeyman]

6. Ribbons don't feed children

The Saddest thing I saw help feeding the homeless vets is some had their kids with them

[The Wizard]

7. Many veterans

will be fighting to keep their Social Security along with Veterans benefits. The Administration has commissioned a study to determine if it is feasible to use Social Security as an offset against Veterans benefits.
So now we have government officials trying to figure out how to screw veterans out of their earned entitlement. The commingling of funds as suggested by the Administration's Commission would get any lawyer in any state disbarred for life.
And all because Paris Hilton and Dick Cheney need tax relief and Bush wanted to be called a "War President."

[westerebus]

14. Federal civil service disability

retirement benefits are reduced based on veteran disability benefits paid out for a disability that can be proven and granted. If you retire on a federal disability and apply for veteran benefits, the total of the veteran portion is deducted from the civil service pay out. I don't know if the converse is true.

[Major Hogwash]

8. Loss of job, loss of family, loss of self

It happened in both world wars, Korea, and Vietnam.

Today's veterans are already losing their jobs - that bullshit that companies have to keep veteran's jobs open for them is just that - bullshit!

Then the PTSD will start to affect them within just a few weeks or months, and their family will be strained to help them deal with it. Eventually, the veteran will alienate those he loves most: his wife or her husband, parents, brothers, sisters, and close friends.

With no job, and no familial support, the veteran will start to wander off into the abyss, looking for himself. And for some, that will take years, decades. And some will never recover.


So, Pelosi doesn't want to impeach Bush? Fuck, somebody has to. Somebody has to hold that phony costumed freak responsible for the Iraq War.

I just read that 150,000 innocent Iraqi citizens have been killed in this failed military excursion of Bush's. The Iraqi government said that particular figure of 150,000 was entirely plausible.

[Major Hogwash]

9. Morality play constantly playing out in their head.

"Did I do the right thing that one time when ....? "

"Why did I make it through the war, but my buddy didn't?"

"What good did we do, really?"

"Twenty years from now, will we be fighting against their enemy?"

"I wonder how many angels can fit on the head of a purple heart?"

"I wonder if anyone will notice that I look 10 years older than my classmates at the high school reunion this year?"

"I wonder if my kids will respect me after they're grown up and find out that I volunteered, twice?"

"I wonder if anyone really knows how much I have to drink in order to pass out just so I won't start talking about that one day again?"

"I wonder if anyone really knows what it is like to be me?"

"I know what I did was the right thing to do, I know that it was right, I was right...wasn't I?"

[AbsoluteArmorer]

10. prediction

In simple terms, veterans will be faced with redeployment to Iran and Syria - less VA bennies - more homeless prior to the '08 elections. Increased news about violent crimes back in the states involving the new war vets.

[james101]

11. Health Care

Health care and disability compensation are being strongly attacked. I think those are going to be the biggest issues for vets 2 years from now.

[AbsoluteArmorer]

12. I'm going out on a long limb here ........

but i think by Oct/Nov 2008, we'll be dealing with medical issues about troops who have already been infected or contaminated by various forms of chemical or biological warfare poisoning. So not only will war, veterans and VA issues still being on the table for discussion in '08, but the fact that a discovery of troops that has returned home has also brought with them killer infections from the Middle East that will place civilians in 2009 in more danger in America.

[Lowell]

13. Exposure to Depleted Uranium

will take its toll on not only the returning vets, but also their offspring. This will make Agent Orange look like chickenpox. Just look at the birth defects and cancers in Iraq now that are the result of DU used during GWI.