02.14.06
Shiteating Scum
Wow, there really are no depths the Bush Administration won’t stoop to.
Even while trying to shame anyone with any questions about the invasion of Iraq with the usual “support the troops” BS (hear ye: supporting troops does not ipso facto mean mindlessly supporting whatever policies put them into harm’s way), it turns out the Bush Administration — along with the neo-con bund over at the American Enterprise Institute — have been mounting an absolutely disgraceful campaign to cut benefits for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while simultaneously running a sophisticated propaganda campaign in an effort to discredit the diagnoses, the treatment, and even the notion of the disorder itself.
Supposedly, legions of malingering veterans of the Iraq conflict are using PTSD diagnoses as a sham so they can lay around collecting government money and drinking Big Gulps or something. Some even go so far as to claim that the notion of delayed-onset PTSD is somehow the “creation” of anti-war protesters, while others maintain that PTSD is caused by the therapists themselves simply because they (the therapists) believe warleads to PTSD and thus somehow brainwash soldiers into believing they have the supposedly illusory debilitating condition.
Unbelieveable. Expletives fail me.
