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"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done, (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember the occasions in which maybe if you had stood others would have stood too. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair." They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 University of Chicago Press, 1955

 

Fort Hood's Killer Shrink: Was He One of the Army Docs Pressured to Misdiagnose PTSD in Soldiers?

Perhaps we'll learn as details unfold that Hasan — himself a suicide killer — was one of the Army's psychiatrists and psychologists who were pressured during the first five years of the Iraq War to not diagnose screwed-up soldiers as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Instead, the Army's doctors were diagnosing soldiers as supposedly having "personality disorder," a pre-existing condition for which they wouldn't qualify for treatment. The military had a financial motive — keep healthcare costs down — in addition to the motive of covering up the huge PTSD problems of returning soldiers.

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"keep health-care costs down"?

justice

So when the military drafted in 11,017 US prisoners,on a Presidential "moral waiver"(some hard felons,with all sorts of crimes/problems/diagnoses)in 2005,for the Army,and stuck a gun in their hands and said,"Here,you're tuff,go and kill some Ayrabs",they DIDN'T tell them that when they came back with military induced PTSD that they WOULDN'T be entitled to Medical benefits?
I wonder how MANY of those,who were delibarately 'misdiagnosed' and denied treatment/meds on return,were the prison/felon-recruits???

Muh ha ha ha .

chillyphantom

The surviving PTSD prison/felon-recruits would make great government material for a nation that is already morally bankrupt. In fact, they might even be better than some of the toxic trash you have in there now. They wouldn't be as easy for the shitty crime state to bribe.