From: "Mark" 

It's beyond unfortunate, yes. But the solution is not to never use our troops.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Yes many of the troops are battle hardened. Unfortunately for Rumsfeld and
> company they aren't cyborgs. Battlefield stress is a very real thing that
> the military is quite aware of.  Sadly there is no magic pill and some
> remain f*cked up for long periods of time
>
> http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/aug2003/a080803d.html
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> We have to hit things as hard as we can as fast as we can, but results
> have been really good," added Selby. Unfortunately, not everyone recovers
> from battle fatigue and combat stress with local treatment.
> "Occasionally, we see some pretty serious psychiatric patients with
> extreme disorders," said Parsley. They literally can't feed themselves or
> do personal hygiene. They can be serious risks to themselves or other
> people. These people have to be medically evacuated."
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:43d96c4e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> but but Gary said it made no difference. Who am I to believe Gary or
>>> Rumsfeld?
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>> Well his point was if the left was in control we wouldn't need an army
>> "battle hardened" "stretched" or
"otherwise", since they'd never use them
>> for anything > just sayin>
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>>> One should take care when officials start using buzz phrases as 'battle
>>> hardened' .
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>> A percentage of our troops are battle-hardened in first-person
>> perspective, the rest are at a higher level of readiness in support
>> positions than they'd otherwise be, just a fact.
>>
>>> They also told us the following
>>> about Saddam"fourth largest army in the world," and about his
>>> "battle-hardened troops,"
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>> I don't recall everything said about Saddam's troops, but if the numbers
>> were there, then it was accurate -- how well they fought and whether
>> they'd run is another matter. They couldn't run in a fight against Iran
>> or Kuwait because they'd be killed by Saddam, they were obviously quite
>> sure as they watched the Humvees enter Baghdad that Saddam wouldn't be
>> around to kill them if they ran from the US, so they did -- wisely so.
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