Mental illness of our troops

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With the military's suicide rates so high, PTSD, etc... I was thinking.

Is it safe to assume that many of these men and women are fed a steady thought stream of propaganda?
Such as, "we are fighting for freedom" and "fighting the 'bad guys' there so we don't have to fight them here"; for examples.

Then, when the reality of their world erodes and they are faced with what is really going on (that they are fighting a special interest corporate war to pad the pocketbooks of CEO's and shareholders) they are confused.
The overwhelming quilt, anger, and confusion sets in and messes with their minds.
That the split between what they were told when they were raised and then during their tenure in the military is so opposite of the cold hard truth of this vicious world they breakdown? Especially when lives are taken in the name of the big lie?

Hey, this a "pop psychology" for sure and I am guessing here but do you think I have a valid point?

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[Demeter]

1. And This Is Different From the Electorate How?

The US is sick, it's been that way for a while, since Reagan, at least, and it's getting worse every year. The sickness manifests everywhere: our businesses, our government, our schools, and the armed forces.

And it's bringing on the biggest collapse of a country the world has ever seen since the Weimar Republic.

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4. I hear ya n/t

[Angela Shelley]

2. What about the millions of people who suffer from mental illness

who have never been in the military?

Not only soldiers suffer from being brainwashed through propaganda.

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3. I work with them everyday n/t

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

5. I think you're absolutely right.

And sadly, it starts with the recruiting process. I found one absolutely heartbreaking story, from the mother of a fallen soldier who was KIA in 2004...

Seth Dvorin was a Second Lieutenant with 18 soldiers under his command. He died instantly on February 3rd when he tried to dismantle an "improvised explosive device" near Iskandariyah south of Baghdad. "Seth had no equipment, and he was not trained in explosives," his mother told me. Seth's father, Richard V. Dvorin, is an Air Force veteran and retired New Brunswick police officer.

A member of Military Families Speak Out, Sue Neiderer is now a peace activist in opposition to the occupation of Iraq. After she returned from a memorial at a New Jersey school, I talked with her about the war, her loss, her sense of responsibility for those who are still alive in Iraq, and about military recruiters who wrongfully changed the course of Seth's life.

Paul Rockwell: Many members of Military Families Speak Out, parents who lost their loved ones in Iraq, comment on the misinformation that led to war. Do you believe President Bush lied to our troops?

Sue Neiderer: Absolutely. He lied. There was no war when Seth went into the military. Now it comes out that what we went to war for was a deception -- total lies. No weapons of mass destruction. Absolutely no link to Al Qaeda. The war was basically Bush's personal vendetta. The day after my son was killed, George Tenet, the Head of the CIA, came out and said: There are no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Do you know how a mother feels? My heart sank. My Family. We all just went to pieces. Our son was killed the day before Tenet made his announcement. We learned that we just lost our child for no reason.

More here: http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/opin/pr_neid.html