This is sad and a little scary too.

The way they abuse our soldiers by sending them into the meat grinder over and over again, it’s a miracle that it doesn’t happen more often.

Just imagine all the untreated PTSD cases going into the police department… that should scare you.

I am totally amazed this hasn’t happened far more frequently, too, what with the repeated deployments, the PTSD and the free-flowing anti-depressants to keep these guys on duty and “numb”. Certainly the use of these ADs has been involved in many of the suicides of our troops at home and murder-suicides.

I have also read many articles on the increasingly low morale of the troops. Many of them have no idea what they’re fighting for. I don’t either, except to make profits for mercenaries, KBR, Haliburton and the rest of the MIC.

“Just imagine all the untreated PTSD cases going into the police department… that should scare you.”

That is scary, especially because, around here anyway, it’s no secret that our local police departments prefer ex-military. They are given preference above all other applicants, regardless of qualifications or character.

tick, tick, tick…

So Fort Hood is now a meat grinder? It’s statistically now more violent to American troops than either Iraq or Afghanistan.

At least one of them, the major, was a desk jocky psychologist that never saw combat and still wouldn’t.

Also Obama’s response was lacking. He tacked it on three minutes into his chat with reporters. Before that, there was a shout-out to one guy (Obama called Dr. Joe Medicine Crow a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, when he had really recieved the Medal of Freedom) and several thank yous to others.

Greg

And your point is?

As for Obama, you’re really reaching there, dude. I mean, c’mon, the man is trying to clean up after the worst President in American history and dealing with other extremely important issues, and that’s the best you’ve got? You’ve never confused two very similar things, never superimposed numbers in your check book, never called someone the wrong name? It must be SO awesome to be as perfect as you.

Jed Clampett

War is the meat grinder you dolt.

It takes poor people and makes them into suicidal murderers. Makes them behave in ways that are outside nature’s programming and the logical way of doing things, to act criminally and destructively; soldiers have to be trained in such a way that the human nature is destroyed and killer instinct brought to bear. Unfortunately, all society pays for this disruption of the natural programming of a human being. Instead of helping ‘our soldiers’, the corporate overlords in control of the military forces just discards them like a used band aid or an old pair of underwear and leaves them to fend for themselves and society to deal with them.
If they are corrupt and destitute, they will use their learned skills to rob the population, raise mayhem when drunk, act out of greed and corruptibility.

What is truly sad… if we spent just one seventh of the money we spend on militarism and destruction on promoting the behaviors and sciences that are constructive and beneficial, we could actually do some good in the world and be admired for the right reasons, not envied for our greed. By now, we would have re-discovered the good ways of harnessing energy and would not have all these wars that merely fill the oligarchy’s trough.

War is a meat grinder, it treats humans like useless pieces of meat to be sent to kill and die for the benefit of corporations that make a fortune for themselves and their leadership which is in turn partly re-invested into buying legislation that will create more war.
t’s the equivalent of short selling, betting that your company will fail, then using the wealth you already control to create the conditions to make your failure bets come true. It is in fact, betting against humanity and using your wealth to make sure the bet ‘pays off’.
Some truly sick logic, don’t you think?

BurnDaddy, the liberals pounced on Bush every time he misspoke and when he continued to read the book to the children after the 9-11 attack, yet Obama spent three minutes giving shout outs before he switched modes and got serious. The media complained on Bush’s slow response to Katrina yet Obama has no plans for Afghanistan nor after 9 months is there enough H1N1 flu shots. When Obama does it, the media tries to cover for him. That’s one of the reasons why CNN and MSNBC are getting lower and lower ratings. People see the hypocrisy.

Bush drew attention and criticism to himself by saying something stupid every time he spoke. Had we known how much he would stutter when he spoke, perhaps people would have recognized his passion for distorting truth. Ever seen how he defined ’sovereignty’? A middle school student probably could have done better, but not any other conservative.

BD, that is the preference everywhere. Tey think that if they have military training, they have the training in violent reaction to deal appropriately with the stresses of the job. You should realize that military training is by definition training in criminality, some people reject and then have to deal with mental punishment; others internalize it. and like a pedophile seeks out jobs close to children, find a place where they can be violent with impunity.

Political Correctness – it KILLS!

Please… you’re seriously comparing this random mass shooting on a military base to to attacks on civilians at the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon in terms of presidential response?

It wasn’t like someone whispered the news into Obama’s ear while he was at the podium and then he just ignored it for “3 minutes”.

Obama was already briefed about the shooting at the White House as soon as the news broke and it was already being handle by the time he came out to speak. The news even said that they were already looking into who the shooter was to figure out if this was a random incident or if there was any signs of terrorism.

and yes, he had a few things to talk about, and the news (which had just broke and was already being handled) got squeezed into the outline of what he wanted to talk about at the last minute and yeah, he decided to start with the quick “shout out” as you call it and get that out of the way.

Bush waited 10 minutes with a children’s book in his hands nodding like an idiot when he easily could have at least stepped out into the hall to discuss the matter briefly and then go return to what he was doing. I’m sure the kids could have waited a minute.

Hardly the same thing. Please.

Hay BurnDaddy time to take the blinders off. If you beleive anything you just said you have been fooled. Obam is yet another puppet of the NWO, and he is there to finish the job Those before him have started. And that job is not preserving the U.S.A. In fact he has stpped up the pace of our demise quite a bit. Obama is not even a NATURAL BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN and everyone knows it. He needs to face prison time for fraud.

You could treat those PTSD vets with cannabis boiled in oil. Taken like a castor oil or cough syrup, that’s what the Israelis and Canadians and Bosnians, and Dutch and British do with their suicidal or violent war vet PTSD cases.
It’s hoffifying that we know about the remedy, and won’t use it. ‘Reefer Madness’ generation….but the AMA just issued a statement that it will no longer endorse the DEA’s web-site page against medical marijuana.
The AMA, Doctors, are now starting to admit cannabis can be good medicine….so why not test it right away on these war vets home, rather than writing articles about it and using words like ‘horrifying’.
What’s horrifying is the government and police position on medical cannabis.