Treatment of Soldiers by Army Just Keeps Getting Worse
FORT CARSON A Fort Carson soldier who says he was in treatment at Cedar Springs Hospital for bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse was released early and ordered to deploy to the Middle East with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
The 28-year-old specialist spent 31 days in Kuwait and was returned to Fort Carson on Dec. 31 after health care professionals in Kuwait concurred that his symptoms met criteria for bipolar disorder and “some paranoia and possible homicidal tendencies,” according to e-mails obtained by a Denver newspaper.
It wasn’t enough that the Army tried to make vets buy there own Purple Heart medals so they could be awarded with the medal. It wasn’t enough that the Army demanded that wounded soldiers return part of their ’sign up’ bonus because they lost limbs or their eyesight, or anything else that prevented them from fulfilling their obligation to the U.S. Army, and Bush’s war in Iraq. It just wasn’t enough.
Now kicking these fine military men and women when they are down is an absolute disgrace. Bush’s illegal war has made many forget that what is truly at stake is the human cost, on both sides. It doesn’t really matter if a soldier dies on the field of battle, or because of the battle. It matters that a life is lost, regardless of why.
Any soldier that has developed serious mental problems because of experiences on the battlefield, can not possibly be fit for duty. Is Bush’s war so damn important, but unpopular that the only way he can fight it is by ‘recycling’ wounded soldiers?
Maybe one day soon he will realize that his war is not an ongoing series called M*A*S*H. The blood is real, the human lives affected are real, there won’t be a ‘tune in next week’ tag line for many of these fine sodiers, and that’s a tragedy.
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