How (Not) To Act When You Support Our Troops
"A six-month investigation has uncovered multiple cases in which soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits. The conditions of their discharge have infuriated many in the military community, including the injured soldiers and their families, veterans' rights groups, even military officials required to process these dismissals.
They say the military is purposely misdiagnosing soldiers like Town and that it's doing so for one reason: to cheat them out of a lifetime of disability and medical benefits, thereby saving billions in expenses." (The Nation, "How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits" by Joshua Kors 22-Mar-2007 as seen in CrooksandLiars).
How can this administration claim to support our troops and tolerate this abhorrent treatment? I don't know how pres Bush sleeps at night, but he should be treated like he is treating these brave but wounded soldiers!
posted by Will4Earth | 12:51 AM
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First Walter Reed, now BS misdiagnoses of wounded soldiers to cheat them out of benefits and save money to fork over to Halliburton (which is now an Arab company BTW, incorporated in the UAE).
Tell me, again, why the US is regarded as "the land of the free and the brave"? More like the land of official fraud and lies.
Not even George Orwell himself could have conceived of something as devious and mendacious as this personality disorder racket. What a bunch of bull. And we wonder so many US and British professionals are leaving to get set up in places like Brussels or Berlin or Florence? Who wants to get f***ed over like this?
Thanks for writing this.
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