Congress to Slash PTSD Brain Research
Ilona Meagher of PTSD Combat : Winning the War Within gave me a heads up on the issue of Congress cutting funding for research on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Let me quote a bit of what she has written:Late last night, USA Today blew the issue wide open by posted a stunning article on its website. They reported that the House and Senate Appropriation Committees were poised to slash by half TBI funding used for research and treatment of war-related brain injuries in its 2007 Defense appropriation bill.
Please contact your Congress critters and tell them to spend the money. Our troops deserve no less. You can contact your government here:
Traumatic brain injury is the signature wound of our nation's current wars. As of January 2006, 20% of those injured in Iraq had TBI. Cutting funding when it's most needed is reckless and immoral. My full analysis posted at ePluribus Media.
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1 comment:
eyesallaround,
What is lacking is not methods and means. It is will.
The other side is playing for keep. They have taken the gloves off. They will say or do anything to advance their cause. While we sit at home crying about small losses.
Look at America. About a thousand dead a year from the war and the casualties are called unsustainable.
Look at Israel - electing stupid leftist governments. The Israeli people are now screaming for action but are hampered by a government they elected.
Britain? Tony Blair is there - not because he is supported - but because there is no one else.
The Germany and France and their poodles? Peace for our time is their fondest hope. They learned their lesson 60 years ago. Unfortunately it was the wrong one.
Spain? The fool running the show smiles like an idiot and makes nice with the fellers planning to slit his throat.
So eyes, it is not asymetrical warfare that is hurting us. Suitcase nukes. Chemical weapons mixed up in a basement. Or any of that stuff. It is not what the enemy has. It is what we lack.
Will.
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