And Bush can't think about anything he would have done differently????? His lies are costing so many lives, Iraqis, Afghan, and our souldiers and Marines.

It is digusting to see Bush, Cheeny and Rumsfeld out peddling their books. None of them have any regrets.

What is even more sickening to me...that people are standing in line to buy and have their boos signed.

When Bush was president, his speeches were always given in front of a bunch of soldiers, "we really appreciate our military" and then he would cut their benefits.

Along with 9-11 he is also responsible for destroying the military. He lied them into war, so they have to go back again and again. Driving them crazy

The Military rule is simple & self-evident: use 'em, abuse 'em & lose 'em.

I'm commenting as an enlisted veteran of USAF Intel overseas during the peak of the Cold War and Viet Nam. It was risky, sometimes dangerous, there were always elements of fear, but it was an effing cakewalk compared to what these young men and women are facing, especially in multiple deployments. They deserve so much better than they're getting.

The late George Carlin, my personal supreme being and unerring philosopher of life, spoke sharply in his last few HBO specials before his death in 2008 about how the ruling powers of this country really don't give a damn about the rest of us, and that cynicism is reflected in this wrenching article. The president and the Congress and the Pentagon talk a good game about their concerns for our troops, blah, blah, blah, but where the rubber meets the road, the policies and the services to help and support them are just not there. I myself have experienced this to a much lesser degree in my status as a VA patient, although in fairness I can't say all my VA treatment has been indifferent or insensitive--that is simply not true--but for these young combat vets, it's unconscionable they not receive the help they need by "order" (mandate) to deal with their PTSD in whatever form it takes.

I'm not sure the great Carlin was 100% accurate in his caustic assessment of our government, but he was damn close enough.

What goes around comes around.

An overall tragedy, not only based on the Bush regime's lies, but as another symptom of an old pattern played out for years contributed to by a foreign policy that has long gone beyond the idea of self-defense.

Partiotism itself is not neccessarily the problem. (After all, every country has it.) But when going extreme, combined with other factors, it's more often than not a revealing of empire.

Then, inevitably come the victims, in this case, the illegal Iraq War: Those among the U.S. military. And we directly cannot comprehend what many Iraqis are going through, with their own suffering, deaths, and trauma. Though we can imagine; not totally out of sight, out of mind.

Yet, this is another example; not only for soldiers having the justification to directly rebel, but the general public as well. One day.

"It was the 11th “suspicious death” (the Army has yet to officially declare any of them suicides). . ." SERIOUSLY?! Is the military so deep in denial that it refuses to contemplate what war does to our own young soldiers, let alone to the millions of unfortunate "collateral damage" left in its wake?

PTSD requires 2 basic Elements:
A very stressful experience, obviously.
And a pre-existing significant Chronic Anxiety condition.
The Battlefield is most effective at providing the first.
Pyroluria Infection is the most common cause of the second.