File this under "Betrayal Of Trust 101"

[docwebster]

(snagged from murnkay)


A stretched Pentagon is sending unfit soldiers back to Iraq long before they are ready to serve again.

Let's put this in bold, folks:

The army specialist came within inches of death last November 15, when the Humvee he was driving hit a roadside bomb, killing his sergeant. The entire left side of Gunn's body was splattered with shrapnel, his elbow was shattered and, as he lay in the US military hospital bed in Germany, he was tortured by nightmares.

Late on March 23, Gunn told his mother, Pat, that his commanders were putting pressure on him to return to Iraq, but there was no way he was getting on that plane. A few hours later, he was airborne.

Is THAT what you call supporting the troops? Disgusting doesn't even begin to cover it. There is a special place in hell for the filthy bastards that ordered this.

Comments

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

I thought you might want to see that. Inhuman.

[madsqueeble.livejournal.com]

That's just inhuman...

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

On one hand it's not all that surprising at this point. It's mighty horrifying though!

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

What makes this even worse is that there are plenty of fresh, rested, completely idle troops in Europe and Korea, in militarily unnecessary deployments, who could be transferred to Iraq instead.

[femakita.livejournal.com]

Again, a plug to put this shit on RN... and maybe a more public, non-LJ blog? (An RN blog?)

In another circle of friends, we have one person who's an actual Serious Blogger that devotes about 75% of her entries to current events. No one knows how she has the time - we don't, but we do have time to read her. As her husband puts it, "she reads the news so we don't have to".

I think that given the current information overload of today's society, people with the time to be nodes in this way are becoming really important. And really visible.