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There is growing evidence that predeployment screenings were not as rigorous during the surgeâthey needed bodies and boots on the ground. Also growing evidence that the high rate of suicide among returning service members is in part related to their poor mental health going into the military. If this is indeed true about Bergdahl then the GOP is going to find itself tied in a few Gordian knots. They bleat about mental illness rather than gun control, but then attack someone with purported mental illness.
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He read âAtlas Shrugged,â can we blame Ayn Rand?
This is all very interesting, but where is the follow-up reporting on the Tea Party terrorists, who actually killed two police officers? How many other Tea Party terrorists are out there? Where did they get their guns? Who are their sympathizers? What kind of support networkâideological, practicalâdid they have? What do we do to combat this ongoing and actual threat?
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Put yourself back at your own boot camps and youâll recall one, two or three guys who mysteriously disappeared. Word would leak out that they were discharged for some vague âmedical reasonâ.
I recall a kid that had narcolepsy. He would fall into a deep sleep at the drop of a hat and could not be awaken.
Another had an allergy to wool. Had to be hospitalized for a horrendous asthma attack.
I recall a cousinâs kid who came home from basic with his feet in bandages. Some kind of allergy.
Usually no disgrace involved.
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Iâll have no more comments on this until the dust has settled and the Army sorts things out. Damned story is being blown way out of proportion to other events in our lives plus when his parents get death threats itâs a sign to dial it back one hell of a lot.
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A question for Paul Ryan, David Brat, and other (would be) politicians that require their staffers to read âAtlas Shruggedâ or use their influence to promote âAtlas Shruggedâ in schools:
Would you encourage US troops to read âAtlas Shruggedâ? What values do you think soldiers could learn from Ayn Rand and âAtlas Shruggedâ?
I have even more sympathy for Bergdahl than I did before. It was highly irresponsible for our military to accept people that we knew in advance were not ready for military service, especially service in an overseas war zone.
I have even more anger for the politicians that started these wars and caused a situation where the military was required to greatly lower their admission standards just to keep up with the neocon warmongering.
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Iâd like to know how someone so apparently not suited to be in the military was so determined to be in the military.
Exactly, in basic training if you say I donât want to be here they will send you home no questions asked.
Address your question to any recruiter and sit back for some stories!
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Maybe not, but Rand Paul and Dave Brat should be standing right beside him. Free markets, baby!
I totally agree. This is so out of control it is astounding.
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Ok, so he wandered off looking for John Galt. And Rand Paul is upset over this becauseâŚ
Oh yeah, Obama had something to do with it.
How about leaving this poor guy alone! Geez, he has been through enough without these constant unending attacks! Leave him alone!
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Atlas Shrugged? Faux News has been Swiftboating one of their own? That would explain a lot. His strange behavior and wandering off alone aimlessly like McCain did on stage during on e of the presidential debates. Hid fatherâs Duck Dynasty beard.
Heâs old news what with Cantor doing a swan dive.
Wow. Is that revealing? The damn MIC just wants warm bodies to serve up to the Gods of War.
How was GR asserting that?