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Courage To Resist - Freedomain Radio Interview with Jeff Paterson

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Options to explore if you're in the army, and don't want to be.

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  • post traumatic stress disorder-gotta love how language evolves. In world war one, it was called "shell shock", in world war two, "combat fatigue". not pc enough of a description now I guess.

  • all people who go to war suffer from ptsd. If you dont think you do it just means your copeing system is working. Even if you signed up for it. Think about it. Who signs up for a job to go kill people?

  • Wow, what baloney. 30-40% of the people who worked in Iraq suffer from PTSD? That is completely absurd. I've worked in Iraq for 19 months and I know for a fact that that isn't true at all. Humans are pretty darn resilient and the military is actually pretty good at preparing their troops for the conditions over there.

    Don't like the wars? Fine. Argue against that directly. Don't try to make us feel sorry for troops who have all volunteered for the work they are doing.

  • Ahh... but that's the difference between slaves owned individually and those in a common pool. If you're owned by a particular person or group of people they will look after you to the extent that it's economic to do so to preserve your productivity. The slave owned in common can be used up with no consequences for the user.

  • not necessarily. they can always get more in a shitty economy.

  • Because on the first two we did not have have control of them at the beginning. Also the people in the blackwater case where tired and the case was thrown out out court.

    That is one of the reasons why a increase in troops would help so we would not have to reply on the warlords.

  • If you owned them wouldn't you look after them better?

  • Then why did they hire the Badr Brigade? Why did they allow (and encourage) torture? Why didn't they make sure the murderers in Blackwater got tried for their brutality?

  • And what links you have that proves this? (send it in a message)

    Except that that has only been claimed and not even verified yet. Also given the rules of warfare that US and NATO troops have to follow this is very unlikely.

    No you got conned because people wanted heath care was more important then what was happening overseas. They just see the money and could care less about the people in ether Iraq or Afghanistan.

  • Actually there have been many people killed in US interrogations and I don't know of anyone who's been charged over that. A group of "international" soldiers just tied up several children and shot them in the head, no charges. As for the idea that we should "talk to our elected representatives", why? We elected the most anti-war people available and it's still going on.

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