keep in mind the difficult job the NCIS, the CID, and the AFOSI do in investigating their own branches.

I wouldnt exactly call that 'demonstrably mentally ill'. That's how you demonize troops in your mind to make it easier to spit in our faces when we get back.

Thats how to acknowledge the major stress this war has put on the soldiers which reflects poorly only on those who order them back into conflict without the breaks they deserve.

But medical officers for the Army and Marine Corps acknowledge that medicated service members - and those suffering combat-induced psychological problems - are returning to war. And anecdotal evidence, bolstered by the government's own studies, suggest that the number could be significant.
A 2004 Army report found that up to 17 percent of combat-seasoned infantrymen experienced major depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder after one combat tour to Iraq. Less than 40 percent of them had sought mental-health care.
A Pentagon survey released last month found that 35 percent of the troops returning from Iraq had received psychological counseling during their first year home.
That survey echoed statistics collected by the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. The system has found that about 33 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from schizophrenia, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

And HERE.

The article indicates that the military is putting pressure on mental health professionals treating these soldiers to minimize the extent of their problems and to declare them fit for return to Iraq and combat. For example, some Army doctors are reporting that they are being told to diagnose combat-stress reaction instead of the more serious post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Further, the article reports that professionals treating emotionally disturbed soldiers "are under pressure" to approve their redeployment to Iraq. I have written about the moral issues involved in mental health treatment of soldiers in Iraq [To Heal or To Patch: Military Mental Health Workers in Iraq]. The issues are similar for those treating the soldiers when they return if the professionals play any role in deciding whether or not the soldiers should return to combat. The mental health professionals are not in a position to make unbiased judgments as to a soldier's readiness to return to combat when their own status and advancement in the military may depend upon how they exercise that judgment.
 
One "implication" not even mentioned in the article is that sending "mentally ill" soldiers back into combat puts not only the soldiers' own mental health at risk, but endangers Iraqis as well. What is the quality of decision-making by highly stressed soldiers, whether they suffer from "PTSD" or only from "combat-stress reaction"? These soldiers are armed with lethal weapons and are often in a position to make split-second life-or-death decisions. After all, "stress" is often used as a defense when other armed authorities, such as police, are caught engaging in abusive or even murderous behavior. Surely the effects of stress can only be magnified on soldiers who spend a year or more being assigned to a country where they can never feel entirely safe.

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Soldiers in Iraq routinely make split-second decisions whether to shoot or not, such as at the innumerable checkpoints or when on convoy. We already know from a study published in the July 1, 2004 New England Journal of Medicine [Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care: see their Table 2] that 14% of Army soldiers and 28% of Marines returning from Iraq reported "being responsible for the death of a noncombatant." To deploy mentally unstable soldiers [not to mention those with drug or alcohol problems] likely will increase these horrific numbers. This policy of returning potentially unstable soldiers to combat in Iraq is, thus, not only a serious threat to the mental health of the soldiers, but a threat to occupied Iraqis. This policy, already reprehensible because of the danger it poses to the long-term mental health of the US troops, is also in its reckless disregard for Iraqi lives yet another example of the innumerable war crimes being committed against the Iraqi people.
 
 
Stephen Soldz is psychoanalyst, psychologist, public health researcher, and faculty member at the Institute for the Study of Violence of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He is a member of Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice and founder of Psychoanalysts for Peace and Justice. He maintains the Iraq Occupation and Resistance Report web page and the Psyche, Science, and Society blog.

Your gratuitous insult where you say:

That's how you demonize troops in your mind to make it easier to spit in our faces when we get back.

Can be forgiven as you obviously are not aware I am a Vietnam vet, one of those held in such contempt by people who cannot understand the ravages of war.

I have cited here at TL before, as well, that I suffer from PTSD, and you also diminish the seriousness of such a diagnosis. The consequences for many are much more grave than you allege, especially when you falsely claim to speak for "most of us" while being ignorant of how serious PTSD can be.

Officials from the Defense Department and Camp Pendleton, where some units have been to Iraq three times, said they don't track personnel deployed while taking mental-health medication or the number diagnosed with mental illness.

But medical officers for the Army and Marine Corps acknowledge that medicated service members - and those suffering combat-induced psychological problems - are returning to war. And anecdotal evidence, bolstered by the government's own studies, suggest that the number could be significant.
...
A Pentagon survey released last month found that 35 percent of the troops returning from Iraq had received psychological counseling during their first year home.

That survey echoed statistics collected by the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. The system has found that about 33 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from schizophrenia, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Yes, our military commanders, "dedicated and honorable men", are sending mentally ill soldiers back into combat.

I never attack America, only those destroying it. I do not attack the military and anyone interpreting my comment that way doesn't fully grasp the English language or the plain meaning of the words I use.

I do not have to prove that which is commonly know and that has been in the public domain for some time now, something you don't seem to understand.

Consider my "damnable claim" proven beyond all doubt, as it is. You may not like the "reality-based" world of science, medicine, research studies and such, but when you ignore them to attack me personally you are simply indulging neocon fantasies where science and facts that don't conform to neocon "reality" are ignored.

I care too much for America and its military to sit silently and see them both or either of them damaged beyond repair or destroyed.

Do you READ comments and follow links BEFORE attacking, or is it just easier to attack.

If the Moslem faith calls for war on non-believers

Who speaks for "the left," and can you provide both the quotation you are referring to and the evidence that this person was anointed to speak for "the left."

Wait.  Strawman.  I forgot.  You don't use reason and logic.  You have to argue with your own creations, who say only what you want them to say.