IVAW Operation Recovery: Stop the Deployment of Traumatized Troops

On 10/7/10 members of Iraq Veterans Against War presented their new campaign, Operation Recovery: Stop the Deployment of Traumatized Troops. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans marched from Walter Reed Medical Center to Congress where they delivered notices to members of Senate Armed Services Committee.

As IVAW states:

"While we recognize that we must stop the deployment of all soldiers in order to end the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, we see the deployment of soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Military Sexual Trauma as particularly cruel, inhumane, and dangerous. Military commanders across all branches are pushing service members far past human limits for the sake of 'combat readiness.' We cannot allow those commanders to continue to ignore the welfare of their troops who are, after all, human beings.

There is a problem, a basic right is being denied, and we will organize to get it back."


This video brought to you by members of Civilian-Soldier Alliance: Jeff Rousset, Ryan Harvey, Spencer Compton
http://www.civsol.org

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