43,000 deployed (to Iraq) unfit for combat

By Bob Kendall

That was the shocking headline in USA Today on May 8.

Gregg Zaroya wrote the story from Washington, D.C.  It read:

"More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the week before their scheduled deployment to Iraq as Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show."

Zaroya continued, "The reliance of troops found medically non-deployable is another sign of stress placed on a military that has sent 1.6 million servicemen to the war zones."

Bobby Muller, Veterans for America President, has declared, "They are repeatedly exposed to high intensity combat with insufficient time at home to rest and heal before redeploying."

From start to finish, thus far the Iraq War was based on a series of lies.

To plunge U.S. service personnel into the thousands of years old Middle East religious conflict is unforgivable.  The difference in the Middle East cause for fighting with such tremendously intensity, must be stated simply and bluntly.  The Middle East religions are fighting to maintain their thousands of year's old, historical religious convictions.  

These fighters are fighting for their belief in their view of God and their desire to maintain this historic life style.  Not even the great Roman Empire, which lasted 600 years, could conquer Baghdad.  The Romans tried, but failed and raced back to Rome, defeated in their grand designs.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread!  The U.S. has a vice president who had suffered multiple heart attacks.  Dick Cheney had worked for oil companies.  Cheney still is receiving payments on his long term deals made before becoming vice president.  Is this  a conflict of interest?

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