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Troop Morale Down, Mental Health Problems Up in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — A new report says American troops in Afghanistan are suffering with the highest rates of mental health problems since 2005 and that morale has plummeted.

The report, released Thursday, furnished the first detailed glimpse of the psychological cost of a campaign commanders and officials say has reversed the momentum of the insurgency. Among other things, it says the dramatic increase in fighting there is one of the key factors affecting the mental health of the uniformed forces. For instance, some 70 to 80 percent of troops surveyed for the report said they had seen a buddy killed or wounded.

Troop Morale Down, Mental Health Problems Up in Afghanistan

The report also said that the psychological problems may actually be fewer than expected, given the high level of combat troops are seeing. And the military said it has doubled the mental health staff in the country to help troops cope with their problems.

The data comes from a mental health team that polled more than 900 soldiers, 335 Marines and 85 mental health workers on the Afghan battlefield during last July and August, as troops surged into the country under the Obama administration’s new strategy for fighting the insurgency.

Baring in mind the fact that the aforementioned troop study was conducted in 2010, changes in troop morale since then have not yet been examined.  Earlier this month, the Montgomery Advertiser reported on U.S. Rep. Martha Roby’s trip to Afghanistan.  Upon returning she claimed that troop morale is high following Osama bin Laden’s death.

“It had an extremely positive impact on the morale of our troops,” said Roby. “This is a significant moment in history for the United States. With that being said, we realize there is much to do. We don’t just stop because Osama bin Laden is dead.”

President Barack Obama sent an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan last year to build the force to the current 100,000. Commanders and administration officials say the push has weakened the Taliban, and a limited troop withdrawal is planned by this July.

The new mental health study also reaffirms the long-held view on the price paid for repeated tours of duty: mental health problems were greater for troops on their third or fourth deployment.

The military says it boosted the mental health staff in the country to one for every 646 soldiers last year compared, compared to one for every 1,123 in 2009.

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  • southernpatriot57
    Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:12am

    My son is a Marine in Afghanistan, hopefully killing ragheads as I write this!

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:38am

      Salute to your son and the great job he is doing.

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    • southernpatriot57
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:29am

      Thank you, and to all true Americans like you…my son Loves his job!

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:28pm

      Tell him “thanks” for protecting opium dealing puppet govts., poppy fields, and oil pipeline pathways. Tell him “thanks” for swearing to defend the CONSTITUTION from enemies bot foreign AND DOMESTIC, while the TSA gropes 6 year olds, and checks baby diapers for turd bombs. Tell him thanks a lot. Tell him to get his ass out of that rathole, and come home and defend OUR borders, not the Afghan border. Tell him to quit chasing goat herders around that NEVER posed a threat to this nation. Tell him if he wants to do some good then come home, and defend the Constitution from the criminals in DC that are using it for toilet paper. Tell him that he is CREATING more terrorists than he can kill, by killing people just trying to defend their homeland, just as WE would if foreign invaders were kicking in OUR DOORS and killing OUR loved ones.
      If 15 of the 19 supposed hijackers were supposedly from Saudi Arabia, then tell him to get his ass over THERE and BOM8 THEIR asses instead. Oh…That’s right. Our govt. is in bed with them too.
      On second thought, just tell him to come home. We appreciate his willingness to lay his life on the line for HIS COUNTRY AND HIS CONSTITUTION not Haliburton, KBR, GE, Lockheed Martin, Exxon Mobil, Raytheon, and the other blood sucking corporations that he is fighting to protect, because he DAMN sure isn’t protecting OUR freedoms.

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  • the hawk
    Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:11am

    hey TROOPS IN aff we luv ya ! GO ON STRIKE ! Obama understands that !

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  • southernpatriot57
    Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:10am

    Death to all Islamist.

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  • southernpatriot57
    Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:09am

    Death to Allah and his feeble followers.

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  • curtmavi38
    Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:05am

    Our boys are tired of fighting wars that they aren’t allowed to win. George W, Bush said the mission was complete in afghanisatan period. Along comes Obama and ups the troup level. Obama doesn’t know his tail from a whole in the ground. It’s time we show him the door, if he wants to fight in afghanisatan let him join the army and go over there and fight. bring our boys home now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!meh

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  • southernpatriot57
    Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:04am

    Apparently, Blaze is PC – shame on Blaze for covering the truth, so let me rephrase:

    SYMBOLSOFA: let’s get it on – I will gladly give you my address so that you and your Islamists POS buddies can come by for a cup of coffee.

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  • Roberto G. Vasquez
    Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:02am

    I suspect the problem is Obama’s absurd Rules of Engagement that leave our troops powerless until after they have been targeted.

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  • needanotherReagan
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:59pm

    Those brave men and women are putting their lives on the line every day, and they don‘t even know what they’re really fighting for. What is the goal? What is the end game? Does anybody even know? Bring them home.

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  • ED4237
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:57pm

    The troops should get the support of their leader but who his he? The comander in chief while a senator did everything that he could do to bash the military as much as he could. No wonder moral is down they are over there fight and should be home. The war ion Afghanistan is a lost cause and the troops know this they are there and the people there hate us and so it is time to leave. If we wanted to win in Afghanistan we need to cross over in Pakistan in the border region and go kill the Taliban there instead of waiting in Afghanistan for them to come over and roadside bomb us to death. The Taliban strategy is the same that they did during Charlie Wilson‘s war pick you apart with numerous small attack and run to the mountains where we won’t go and kill them.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:56pm

    In the end your Allah will disappoint you. He is not God; do not follow him. He will lead you to hell. Follow Jesus, who loves you. Allah does not love you or any other human being. He hates us and brings us to one another’s throats! He seeks our total destruction. He is Lucifer by another name.

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    • This_Individual
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:25pm

      The same goes for your fellow American who would defend you from those who would destroy you and your family simply because of your faith or your political beliefs? Thanks a lot.. I’m still happy to have served our nation for you to believe my family and I will burn in hell (which we don’t believe in by the way). When are we going to realize that the game of “my God is better than yours” has been played out by both Christianity AND Islam (Crusades & Caliphates). The rest of us who desire peace and just want to be left alone to persue our happiness and raise our children deserve better. I wish you peace in your heart.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:18pm

      Yeah….Who would Jesus bomb? WWJB?
      Oh…That’s right. Anyone who has natural resources, or a military foothold to steal more natural resources. Yay Haliburton, Raytheon, GE, KBR, Lockheed Martin. Haliburton for JESUS!!!

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:26pm

      If it was all about oil we would have settled that 100 times over a long time ago idiot. You are played..

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  • Exrepublisheep
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:55pm

    Yes bring them home. This “worlds police force’ crap needs to end. Osama is dead, this time the mission really was accomplished.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:02am

      Absolutely! With the death of Bin Laden alln of our troubles are over!!! Just blue skies and butterflies from here on …..

      I hope that you are a paid troll and don’t really believe the crap you spew.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:34pm

    (continued)…”So it is now in this season that even your hidden enemies shall arise and yes, it shall seem as even on ONE DAY that the whole world has forsaken you (5/19/11 ?). But know this, O Israel; they may forsake you but I will never forsake you – they may desert you, but I, the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel will never forsake you…When the veil starts to be lifted from those who profess to be your friends, and your allies start to scatter…so in that moment you shall hear the sounds of war and the sounds of war shall increase. Yes, and in the twinkling of an eye, so shall they unite against you. And you shall say: “We are without help. We shall be driven into the sea.” But I tell you that in that day and in that hour you shall call upon My Name, and I Myself shall sovereignly scatter them. I shall winnow them & I shall make you a terror among the nations. And they shall shake bc of My sovereign hand upon you….And so shall Michael, mighty Prince of Israel, and his mighty angelic warriors join with you and a great victory shall occur. And then there shall be peace for a season until the time of the great end when all nations shall gather against you – from the East and West and the South and the North – at that battle called Armageddon.”

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  • ZAP
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:21pm

    They are doing repeated tours of duty because there is no jobs here.Fix America not Afghanistan!

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    • Hadituptohere
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:56am

      build the wall(s) man the wall(s) with soldiers–solves alot of the problems protect America not some quasi regime that would kill us

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  • psadie
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:16pm

    Our warriors need to come home NOW. Enough is enough. We don’t need to be in that miserable country. Bring them home and let them secure the borders and I guarantee that the drug problem will be solved once and for all. The Mexican drug cartels will be taken out by our warriors and their drones. How refreshing would that be?

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  • RLTW
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:15pm

    It all comes down to leadership on the ground. I retired 4yrs ago after 24yrs, still go over and train soldiers 5mo out of the year and some of what they tell me in the way of leadership is very sad.

    Bring them home now!

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  • ann82
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:14pm

    What I‘m surprised they didn’t mention is how much boyfriends/girlfriends/spouses cheating on a person deployed effects their “mental health.” I read a story where an army guy was on his month break from being deployed, only to discover his wife had left him, and then he went back to Iraq severely depressed. I’ve seen a marine who lost both his legs, and found out in the hospital that his wife had been cheating on him the whole time. This is not to say that it is the only factor, but it is a large one. We have incredibly strong men and women serving our country, and weak nature that is produced by our sex obsessed culture does not provide the support that our troops deserve. May God bless the military husbands/wives that authentically provide that love and support, and don’t cut and run when things get tough.

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  • Momof7
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:11pm

    It’s time to bring our troops home and concentrate on our country! Our borders and the safety of the Unites States of America.

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    • Mkralicek
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 2:51am

      I agree. We went in to get Ben Laden because the Talaban wouldn’t give him up. He is no longer an issue, so it’s time to leave Afganistan?

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    • Hadituptohere
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 9:48am

      i agree bring our toops home –we are going to need them here to protect the evils that are invading our government(we know where they stand) and the true american people!! Obama keeps them deliberately out of the country so we are essensially un armed yet there are 70,000,000 or more “hunters ” willing (I HOPE) that will hold the line til the boys and girls come home!

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  • symbolsofa
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:11pm

    Be certain that America is on its way to utter destruction, America is wallowing [in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is defeated and Israel is defeated, and was defeated in Lebanon and Palestine… May Allah Make Muslims victorious over the community of infidels… Allah, take the Jews and their allies and send on them natural calamities, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, fire….. , Allah, take the Americans and their allies and as they become oppressors in the world, and transfer the leadership of the world in the hands of Muslim Youths around the world.. Allah, annihilate the enemies of islam ( perverted christians and jews ) completely and do not leave anyone of them, and give guidance of islam to good christians and jews and save their lives, when they embrace islam.

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    • momprayn
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:33pm

      For those interested, here’s a “prophetic word” from God written by Wendy Alec in 1999, “Journal of the Unknown Prophet” re Israel that I think just came to pass:
      “I shall allow the thoughts and motives and intents of the nations and govn’ts to resurrect to the surface that you may be in no doubt as to who is your friend & who is your enemy….For even the govn’ts of the West and the Western Powers shall shift & sway & even those who you thought were solid allies to you shall ..shift allegiance…My Spirit has heard the conversations in the corridors of the White House…..whispered conversations of the bankers & the traders of oil and the armaments…For each is a betrayer..each one is full of treachery, each one looks to that which is expedient…even your named feew friends are your enemies..And I am grieved with a great grieving.
      (to be continued in next post)

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    • southernpatriot57
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:59pm

      SYMBOLSOFA: come on, let’s go at it – want my address, you worthless Islamist mf? Allah be damned, let me say it again – Allah and his followers, be damned.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:39am

      Look out! Another 13 year old posting ffrom mommy and daddys basement. It is SOOOOO much fun to get attention this way, the only problem with that is that you are “acting out” This is something that happens when you don’t take your meds. Mommy is making waffles, so go back to the basement and TAKE YOUR PILLS!

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  • Pat_in_NC
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:06pm

    How would you feel if you were risking your lives for your country and you felt your commander-in-chief actually wants to preside over the decline of your country?
    And Obama’s rules of engagement are likely to get you killed…
    And the only medal you can get is for ‘courageous restraint’…

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  • mikee1
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:00pm

    How would you like to be forced to fight an endless pc war for more than a decade?

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:20pm

      Not sorry to say but we are all volunteers Sorry to say alot staying or going in
      has to do with Job market. So maby your right
      never mind

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  • Bigbird1960
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:58pm

    I would like to drop baby bama behind enemy lines and see how well he does?

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  • USAMEDIC3008
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:58pm

    Its hard to keep your mind in the right place when in combat and your family and friends
    are home safe.
    Now put yourself in there place over there thinking. When I’m done here I may have to
    invade the USA to take My country back

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  • neverending
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:50pm

    Doesn’t surprise me one bit. Would have never said this before but these precious men and women need to come home and come home now, Obama could care less about them and I am beginning to even wonder about Petraeus. Sad, sad times.

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  • Eblaze44
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:47pm

    And you are surprised. We have a government that doesn’t truly support them and a mission with no goal or end in sight, rules that put them at risk and disadvantage, and a jerk CIC that takes credit for something someone else did. We burn bibles and exalt the Qur’an. and now the jerk sides with the Muslims against our only true ally in the middle east. Tell me why they should not be depressed and their morale down.

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    • Exrepublisheep
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:20pm

      If only Obama never sent them there! Then he sits out at his ranch while thousands loose their life! The injured come home to hospitals with rats in the rooms! I wish we could elect someone else! ??? What? We did? Cooooooooooooooool.

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    • Mannax
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:54pm

      Obvious trolls are obvious.

      Keep trying.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:19am

      For the record, George and Laura Bush still do more behind the scenes, without cameras, for the returning men and women. Bush never used the caskets as a PHOTO op or returning soldiers as policital puppets. Oh wait, Obama has on numerous occasions. Coooooooooooooooooool!.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:13am

      @Exrepublisheep

      Perhaps if the rules of engaegement enacted by Obama were not ridiculous…If WWII had been fought as Afghanistan (or Viet Nam for that metter when this insane idea about war strted) we would all be speaking German or Japanese.

      Wars must be fought to win and to decimate the enemy so that they are all to willing to stop. as Golda Meier said “We will have peace when they love their children more than they hate us”

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  • USAMEDIC3008
    Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:44pm

    What do you expect Look whats leading them Or should I have Who !!!

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    • coladude
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:45pm

      It is unimaginable to think what they are put through.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:49pm

      God please help and protect them … God Bless our Troops.

      TEA!

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    • Revere1
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 10:50pm

      With Bin Laden dead, Obama will be pressured to bring the troops out. But will he actually do it? http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/05/after-bin-laden-should-republicans-be.html

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:05pm

      A fish stinks from the head down,
      God Bless our men and women, bring them home, now.

      Screw Barry

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:12pm

      Pray for our young people in harms way.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:22pm

      Remember this? From the Weather Underground manifesto?

      “The goal is the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism. Winning state power in the US will occur as a result of the military forces of the US overextending themselves around the world and being defeated piecemeal; struggle within the US will be a vital part of this process, but when the revolution triumphs in the US it will have been made by the people of the whole world. For socialism to be defined in national terms within so
      extreme and historical an oppressor nation as this is only imperialist national chauvinism on the part of the “movement.”

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    • D0ntTread0nMe
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:24pm

      I tell ya what guys… put your guns back in the trucks… pack em up. and let this huge pack of godless crazies get back to killing each-other slowly. Come home now.
      http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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    • Showtime
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:29pm

      “Sex, Lies, and the TSA
      –or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Totalitarianism”

      http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/4850
      You really need to put that site in your favorites. It’s written by two professional investigators.

      Douglas J. Hagmann is the founder and director of the Northeast Intelligence Network and CEO of a multi-state licensed private investigative agency serving many Fortune 500 clients. A 23 year veteran of conducting investigations in the private sector, he has logged over 40,000 hours of covert surveillance in his career and is the author of Tactical Surveillance. He is a member of the International Counter- Terrorism Officers Association and possesses many law enforcement related training certifications. He has been used as an operational asset by federal law enforcement and various police departments, and has performed over 5,000 civil and criminal investigations throughout the United States. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Hagmann began using his investigative skills and training to fight terrorism and increase public awareness by establishing the Northeast Intelligence Network.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:51pm

      My nephew(s) have both been over there, one just came back, one is due back in a month. They both have said they are there mostly for their fellow soldiers, but they don’t feel the mission is worth it. The Afghans don’t want them over there, don’t appreciate what they are trying to do, and their integrity seems to be questioned by leadership (congress/president). Plus, a lot of the people I work with that are coming back seem to have the same stance, they are there for their fellow soldiers/airmen, but the mission just isn’t worth it anymore.

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    • 70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
      Posted on May 19, 2011 at 11:54pm

      Just read “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10″ and listen to the seals worry more about the liberal media and being brought up on charges than their enemy. All because of the strict rules of engagement. Its time for the troops to come home rest and regroup. We need them here as a deterrent to the enemies of the US and our allies.

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    • mossbrain
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:23am

      Let’s not blame this on Obama. What short memories we have. There were some months when Bush was president when more military died of suicide than those killed in combat.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:30am

      I don’t feel sorry for them.

      They should smoke some of that heroin they’re helping the Taliban grown and sell, maybe that’ll make em feel better.

      18 year old babies. Whatsa matter? Your 40K to start a business and college tuition isn’t enough for you while our money is being devalued paying for this illegitimate war?

      Awww. Cry me a freakin river. Cry me a river of fresh Taliban Heroin.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:34am

      IF I had BO for a C&C I would be Crazy TOO.

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    • MinorityRightsAdvocate
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:37am

      @showtime,

      Great link, thanks. I added it to my blog as well.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:50am

      @ Sinista MACE
      You are despicable.

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 1:21am

      The results of not destroying, conquering, and forcing a surrender from your enemy.

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 2:14am

      Right on! BHO could lead a pack a rats. These guys are fighting with both hands tied behind their backs… bring them home enough of his. bring them home before the ME explodes an they get completely cut off!

      Also I saw a headline that the Paki’s just picked up some chinese made jets that all we need now is them to get pissed off at us for doing the job they are not doing.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 2:40am

      This is another strong point made by Ron Paul, bring our troops home today.

      “We the people” on this website however, selfishly, decide that preserving this fictitious sense of security, and furthering our empire is more important than these troops and their families.

      No other candidate is serious enough to bring these people home. Ten years, 1 trillion dollars, and 5,000 lives is enough, in my humble opinion.

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    • Jediusetheforce
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 5:19am

      Its going to get worse. I guess people will take action when they become hungry though. Pull them out and give them a breather for the coming wars. Tempers Fly…Thanks for your service.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:06am

      Probably part of the master plan – bring them home!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:10am

      Mace=MORON

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    • jimmythebullet
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:17am

      @70′s kid-you hit the nail on the head with that one.i read the book also and the same theme jumped out at me.they would all be alive today were it not for insane ROE’s and the prospect of being prosecuted for doing exactly what they are trained and ordered to do.
      @mossbrain-the suicides you speak of were mostly associated with the 101st airborne in kentucky-ft.campbell,i believe.a follow-up report on those suicides revealed that an army doc-probably of middle eastern descent,like at my VA-was over prescribing prozac and other anti-depressants.given the WIDELY known side effects of such drugs,how could you not expect a dramatic rise in suicides?i’m no expert,but it seems rational to me that if a soldier needs such drugs,he/she isn’t mentally fit for combat.IMHO,assignment to non-combat duties or an honorable discharge would be a much better alternative.
      @sister lace-i tried to ignore your post,didn’t work.i spend alot of my time trying to contain the beast within,yet there is always someone like you that just has to come along and rattle it’s cage.keep poking and prodding,my friend.there’s more of us out there than there are of you.i hope you‘re ready when someone’s beast breaks free.
      p.s.-i do,however,agree about the poppy fields.if we wanted to get out of the“stan”,nape the fields and call it a day.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:21am

      If good king barry refuses to let them engage with full force, if their mission is no longer viable, they need to be brought home.At some point you have to lead,follow or get out of the way.We are stuck with a president who REFUSES to do any of those things. Don’t let the door hit you.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 6:49am

      82dAirborne

      What’s despicable is the fact that my tax dollars are being spent to prop up dictators worldwide.
      What’s despicable is the FACT that the US Military is helping the TALIBAN grow and sell HEROIN.
      What’s despicable is the FACT that the CIA/BATFE is helping the Mexican Drug cartels move guns, drugs, and cash.
      What’s despicable is the CIA,Pentagon, and Nato forces working with AL QAEDA.
      What‘s despicable is you acting like you don’t understand the outrage of the taxpayer who is being robbed blind for this fiasco while the country is B.R.O.K.E. – BEING RAPED OPENLY by KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS.

      Dustyluv (whatever that’s supposed to mean) I don’t feel too highly of you either.

      Jimmythebullet said: “there’s more of us out there than there are of you.”

      Who are the “US” you are referring to? Because if you think the majority of the country supports being robbed blind and foreign wars based on false pretense, you are absolutely delusional.

      If you think that there are more people that support the Federal Reserve/ IRS, Endless Military Action, Violation of Civil Rights, Corruption, the Police State, than those WHO DO NOT and will FIGHT VICIOUSLY, you are absolutely OFF YOUR ROCKER and in DENIAL.

      You don’t have a choice but to agree with me about the HEROIN being extracted from poppy facilitated by my tax dollars, while the Police State harrasses and prosecutes us for drug use in a phony war on drugs.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:00am

      @USAMEDIC3008
      “What do you expect Look whats leading them Or should I have Who !!!”
      Actually I believe you had it correct the first time when you said “Look WHATS leading them.”

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    • jeffyfreezone
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:07am

      I like sending care pkgs to them to help lift their spirits. I pick the Marines from AnyMarine.com. many of them ask for pen pals, so maybe some of you Blazers could help by writing some letters to them. You can read their notes to the public, what they could use, and get their addresses from AnyMarine.com and click on where to send. I try to target the ones I’n more austere locations. I find one box a month works for me. Anyway, if you or your church could get together and send pkgs I’m sure those young men would appreciate it.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:22am

      I think Mr. Mace has a point. And the list goes on.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 7:42am

      i’m pretty sure the “american troops” are there “growing heroin”. .. yeah.. that makes total sense… they are there just to “grow heroin” for us, what’s the problem with that? we all need poppies…
      you wrap yourself in that little lie and roll around in bed with it. ;)

      if you want to actually read the reports… they all say, “growing heroin use…”, as in, increase in usage … NOT growing heroin TO use…

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 8:07am

      JB.kibs

      Shut up.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95o03ZYSkCs

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    • usmcdoc50
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 11:55am

      would someone look into why the 82 airborn is packing conx boxes to go to the libya for 6 months…war powers act….is anyone or anyone real any more??

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    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 12:50pm

      Hey OBOZO!!!

      ARE YOU GOING TO VIOLATE THE WAR POWERS ACT???

      You only had 60 days for Libian troops…time is up!

      Get your Patsy, McCain to draft a bill, or get our troops out!

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on May 20, 2011 at 4:26pm

      That’s what happens when you WAKE UP and realize that you are protecting opium dealing puppet govts., poppy fields, and oil pipeline pathways. Realize your oath swearing to defend the CONSTITUTION from enemies bot foreign AND DOMESTIC, while the TSA gropes 6 year olds, and checks baby diapers for turd bombs, MEANT NOTHING. Time to GTFO of that rathole, and come home and defend OUR borders, not the Afghan border. Time to quit chasing goat herders around that NEVER posed a threat to this nation. If they want to do some good then come home, and defend the Constitution from the criminals in DC that are using it for toilet paper. They are CREATING more terrorists than they can kill, by killing people just trying to defend their homeland, just as WE would if foreign invaders were kicking in OUR DOORS and killing OUR loved ones.
      If 15 of the 19 supposed hijackers were supposedly from Saudi Arabia, then tell them to get their ass over THERE and BOM8 THEIR asses instead. Oh…That’s right. Our govt. is in bed with them too.
      On second thought, just tell them to come home. We appreciate their willingness to lay their lives on the line for OUR COUNTRY AND OUR CONSTITUTION, and OUR REPUBLIC, not Haliburton, KBR, GE, Lockheed Martin, Exxon Mobil, Raytheon, and the other blood sucking corporations that they are fighting to protect, because they DAMN sure aren’t protecting OUR freedoms.

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    • GRANNYMOO
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 3:08pm

      Bless our troops, we think of you every day! All of you, Hope you will have a new POTUS by next year! Hang in there guys

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