First Study of War-Related Mental Disorders Among Iraqis 10 Years Post-Gulf War »
Posted By Varadinum 1 year, 1 month ago in Health & FitnessA team of researchers from Wayne State University, in collaboration with Basrah Medical College in Basrah, Iraq, released a study published in The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine today on war-related mental health disorders among Iraqis ten years after the Gulf War.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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Yank them home and watch the killing start big time. Not enough blood for you yet? Remember after Viet Nam and we pulled out and refused to help them with arms and ammunition? The killing fields with over a million dead and the concentration camps with hundreds of thousands. The party of compassion likes to see lots of blood.
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 1 month ago
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Okay Endo you and I intensely disagree on most everything. BUT I have to agree with you.
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They need to include ALL Branches of the military, service women as well, those who lived under Saddam, those who are now home from the current gulf war and Afghanistan. I would also include all the civilans in Iraq and Afghanistan who living under our occupation of their countries. Fair is fair.
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Eagle_Eye1 year, 1 month ago
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I lost a whole group of volunteers with my organization from the gulf war. They were a med unit from the Navy and did a lot of work with me before the war.
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After the war I had an open house and some came, I was stunned!!! The one couple, he was pushing her in a wheel chair, a couple others were so skinny sick, it is the Vietnam War Agent Orange exposure thing all over again, just different "agents" used.
It is deplorable and dispicable how our military treats returning service people.....they are considered "expendable" just like the American People. A certain percentage is always allowed and considered "Expendable". I bet if people realized the full extent of how our government viewed us they would react differently. -
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sumptuousdigs1 year, 1 month ago
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The Wayne State campus is in Detroit, home to the largest group of ex-patriot Iraqis. They are comprised of Chaldeans which are predominantly Christian, as well as other ethnic groups of Iraq.
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The University has an inside track in this study, as language and ethnic barriers, are better negotiated by like peoples.
The study will eventually bring a greater understanding of a multitude of problems facing the vets of this, and future conflicts. Of course this would depend on the military doing it's homework. Something sorely lacking in our political leaders of late.
The side show that the "pugnacious one" offers demonstrates his lack of intellectual curiosity, and unyielding fealty to a wretched administrative failure.
...The fact of the matter is, many expound from the pulpit, the evils of socialism, because it is their greatest competition. Lol!
Jesus was not a Christian. He was a spiritual healer who did social work. He called out his religious authorities for being hypocrites.
Endo' doesn't get it. He thinks we don't know what an endoscope is. Fact is, we don't care. -
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CHAM1 year, 1 month ago
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I know some people who lived in Iraq before Saddam, during Saddam and before Gulf 1, In America during Gulf 1, back to Iraq to visit and try to get relatives out during the daily 10 years of bombings before Gulf II ( Iraqi War ) and back again during the war again to get relatives out. They say the country was much better off under Saddam than under American occupation.
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The came to America to escape Saddam who was knocking off members of their family since they had been part of the resistance to Saddam as he was coming to power.
You would shudder to hear some of their stories.
Endo, you're speaking of killing to come if the U S leaves Iraq , that of course is speculation. Iraqis have been speaking of the continuation of killing and devastation if the United States stays.
So far over a million Iraqi's have died and over 4 million have been displaced. They no longer have a viable school system, medical facilities, operable sewers, and potable water. They don't have electricity more than 4 hours per day. Their resources have been confiscated by American Business firms (especially the oil ) and the Green Zone is to be turned into an International Business Zone owned by U S and Israeli Firms (No Iraqis allowed unless U S lackies . United States business concerns are selling the Green Zone property as if was theirs - current price is akin to property in NYC).
But the most important question is "What did they do to the United States?" The answer of course is nothing. They had nothing to do with 9/11, didn't have any WMD, and that old BS of freeing them from Saddam, more than 70% of the Iraqi population prefers Saddam to what they have now.
So the question of the hour is "Why are we in Iraq and why do some Americans want to stay there so badly"? I think Goppy really said it correctly.
Does America owe war crime payment to the Iraqi people? If not, why not? -
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CHAM1 year, 1 month ago
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I related the experience of some people I know and what they think. They are citizens of the United States for several years now. They had family members killed by both Saddam and the United States. They lost more family members to the 10 years of daily bombings than for any other reason.
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They think the people of the United States are the best of the best. They think the Government of the United States is as bad as Saddam was when it comes to caring for people, they separate the two.
They hated Hussein, that's why they got out of Iraq - back when Iraq ( Hussein ) was a partner with Rumsfeld , Cheney, etc.
Iraqi's looked up to the United States people and was on the whole glad to see Saddam toppled. The problem is that they were not prepared for what followed, they though their problems would be over after Hussein.
The depleted Uranium in Iraq will kill and cause birth defects in Iraq for the next 500 million years. Unless it is cleaned out, an almost impossible task. -
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CHAM1 year, 1 month ago
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The real problem with DU is that when the jacketed projectiles hit their target, the DU changes to a "dust" radioactive and very lethal because the dust is easy to breath in and that where the damage really occurs.
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There are hot sites all across Iraq and they are not marked by the U S. Those that have been identified by Iraqis and the International Red Cross usually will have about 300 times the safe radiation level. This dust gets blown about by the wind. The half life of this radioactive substance is lethal for about 500 million years.
Thank you Swamp-Fox for your input on this most horrible of WMD. We also used this stuff in Bosnia.
And we have loads of it every ready to use. What is alarming is that other countries do have the technology to make this insidious weapon. China, for example, just recently had another manned space flight and plan to place a man on the moon within ten years.
There's an old saying : What goes around comes around. We have to stop our immoral foreign policy before it someday causes us to get into a war we can't win.
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