How do you fund a war, but not the casualties?
Secretary of Veterans is the second largest cabinet, Defense is first for the U.S. However it seems as if the Bush administration have set the Secretary of Vets on the back burner. They have severely under estimated the number of casualties and healthier care needed for the returning Iraq veterans. Post traumatic stress disorder has risen fast from 29,041 last year to 48,559 this year. Within the next decade a minimum of $60 billion will be needed for disability costs. I agree with “How do you fund a war, but not the casualties?” They spend so much money on the actual war and aren't thinking about after the war. The Bush administration needs to get it's priorities straight.
“Newsweek”
Monday, October 29, 2007
topic: military
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As the US, we have a lot more resources available to us to help returning veterans, yet they are highly unused. For all these people do for us-risking their lives daily so we can live in the freedom we're accustomed to- they should get the help they need. As an army fiancee I know that counseling has been extended to my fiance and his platoon when they get back from deployment. However, there is also a stigma that if they go, they're crazy. This isn't so, I know my fiance is perfectly sane-but at the same time, living in fear that an IED is going to go off at anytime isn't normal. When he was on leave I was constantly telling him that people didn't do that (normally) here. Is there a problem? yes. But I believe that not only should help be offered, it should be mandatory. Every returning troop should have 6 months MINIMUM of counseling and psychiatric therapy to lessen the effects of PTSD. There's also another disorder, similar to PTSD, but I forget what it is
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Thank you for the post on this-more people should know about it.
No problem. And thank you for elaborating on the topic :)
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