Are injustices being done against the Iraq vets?

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By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Chris Packley returned from Fallujah in 2004 a top marksman on a sniper team showcased in the Marine Corps Times for its 22 kills. "I was exceptionally proud of that Marine," says Gunnery Sgt. Scott Guise, his former team leader. He also came home with flashbacks — memories of his friend, Lance Cpl. Michael Blake Wafford, 20, dying on the battlefield. Packley says he smoked marijuana to try to escape the images. He also left the base without permission. "I wanted out," Packley says. Last year he got his wish and was expelled from the Marine Corps. As a consequence, he lost access to the free counseling and medication he needed to treat the mental wounds left from combat, according to Packley, his former defense lawyer and documents from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Scores of combat veterans like Packley are being dismissed from the Marines without the medical benefits needed to treat combat stress, says Lt. Col. Colby Vokey.

Answer 1

Ask ANY vet how they were treated!

Answer 2

The U.S. illegally and unconstitutionally attacked Iraq, another sovereign nation that in now way threatened, provoked or attacked America. We did it for only two really lame reasons:
1) The Bush family had a personal vendetta against Hussein ever since Desert Storm when George H.W. Bush was criticized and humiliated for not 'finishing the job' in Iraq;
2) Dick Cheney wants all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sand so he and his Exxon-Mobil buddies can get richer and richer and richer.
I'd call that an injustice against the American soldier.
Almost 3,000 of them (not to mention 655,000 Iraqis) have died because of the vanity and greed of our two top leaders. -RKO-

Answer 3

to a point yes...it's sad when anybody goes through that. the problem is... he should have stayed in and talked to counselors and done everything on the military side of it... if we was actually that messed up he could have gotten a medical discharge and still been able to seek help through veteran affairs...the real bad injustices were with the Vietnam Vets... the way the country treated them was absolutely atrocious.. anybody in the Iraq today, signed up for the military.. the boys in Vietnam alot of them were drafted.. they went from their biggest problem was if a girl they liked , liked them, to running for their lives, people chasing them trying to kill them, watching their friends die in front of them, killing people... so most came back with major mental problems... and were basically spit on when they came back home and the government said OK thanks for your service.. c-ya

Answer 4

Kerry made a joke and everyone got offended, but Bush proposed cutting Veterans Health Benefits and no one complained.