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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 05:37 PM
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Thousands of GIs Cope With Brain Damage
Edited on Sun Sep-09-07 05:38 PM by autorank
"Mission Accomplished" - The White House has created a new phenomenon in war trauma - a new form of brain injury where the physical injury masks the traumatic memories (PTSD). So as you relieve the brain injury, the PTSD returns. Amazing. Who is accountable? Who will pay for this nightmare?

Thousands of GI's Cope with Brain Damage


"Odd as it may seem, brain injury can protect against
PTSD by blurring awareness of what happened"



Photo: Greenpeace
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE | AP Medical Writer
5:35 PM EDT, September 9, 2007


NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers.

Thousands of troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI. These blast-caused head injuries are so different from the ones doctors are used to seeing from falls and car crashes that treating them is as much faith as it is science.

"I've been in the field for 20-plus years dealing with TBI. I have a very experienced staff. And they're saying to me, 'We're seeing things we've never seen before,'" said Sandy Schneider, director of Vanderbilt University's brain injury rehabilitation program.

Doctors also are realizing that symptoms overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder, and that both must be treated. Odd as it may seem, brain injury can protect against PTSD by blurring awareness of what happened.
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 05:47 PM
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1. I sometimes wonder if the reason they are deliberately
stressing the troops is the knowledge that if they are exposed enough to the toxins, the polluted drinking water, and breathe in enough DU, they won't survive to a ripe old age.....kind of a "let them die, and decrease the surplus population," thing.

Killing your own soldiers while making a land unfit for habitation must come under crimes against humanity.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 06:37 PM
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3. I wouldn't put anything past this crew.
The mortality figures are, I recall, much higher for Gulf War I vets than the general population. Why would this be different. And there's a lockdown on discussing depleted uranium. Why?

This is so tragic though, the physical injury masks the psychological trauma. What a mess and what a way to treat people who serve in harms way.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 09:26 PM
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9. and what about the speeders, or whatever they are giving
them to keep them awake and sharp and ready to go all the time.
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 05:49 PM
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2. Terrible
to think about the long-term consequences that others will suffer through because of this administration.

Nominated.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 06:38 PM
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4. Thanks H2O Man.

The White House gives the orders, ducks, and others do the heavy lifting and pay the price.

Not at all acceptable!
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 06:41 PM
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5. GULF WAR ILLNESS - CONSPIRACY TEST
For more on Gulf War Illness, use the VA Watchdog search engine...click here...
http://www.yourvabenefits.org/sessearch.php?q=gulf+war&op=ph


Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhvdkdMFVJQ

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErdz5NYmI4

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD_hR__sHzk

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBZ-ZpCExi8

Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwFQJj8Zbdg
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 06:44 PM
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6. You're the best!
Terrific. Thank you. A link is worth a thousand words of ranting.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 06:58 PM
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7. I am so lazy
(*^.^*)
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 08:39 PM
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8. I'm lazier still...
Edited on Sun Sep-09-07 08:40 PM by autorank


Chillin'
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-09-07 10:24 PM
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10. K&R
H2OMan said it best.
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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 05:10 AM
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11. My friend's son with TBI still can't communicate, after 5 months
He opens his eyes some days, he squeezes hands occasionally.

His wife and his mom have spent basically every day for the last 5 months at his side.
His wife is awaiting the birth of their first child, in just a few weeks.

I just can't believe the havoc wreaked on ordinary people by shrub and the other privileged elites in Washington who chose to proceed with this war.

My friend's son just wanted a job, and to work in the medical field. They lied to him and said he would work in a Navy hospital.

As a medic, he saved some lives over there. "W" isn't worth as much as the dirt on his shoes.
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 05:15 AM
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12. Letting W take office was national brain damage.
And indeed, from Frank Luntz to Donald Rumsfeld, the Republican Party
has been attempting "blurring awareness of what happened."
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 11:16 AM
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13. :)
Luntz to Rumsfeld want us to loose our minds, which we all know, is a terrible thing to lose.

Their first work was on the brains of the voting machine companies and all the other fraud friendly
points of the system. That's the brain damage that lead to W.

You are so right, "blurring awareness of what happened" is where it's at with these clowns.

They get great support from the media tools, don't theny.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 09:42 PM
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14. GENERAL BETRAY US
Edited on Mon Sep-10-07 09:56 PM by seemslikeadream
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-11-07 04:21 PM
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15. What are they fighting and dying for BETRAYUS?
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