<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b4d24a0f-84d7-4fd7-892a-d98c27cf3767/1DDF5BE7-E590-4375-A017-7D09F6E90651/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070723_gonzales_among_defendants_in_iraq_vets_ptsd_suit/" href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070723_gonzales_among_defendants_in_iraq_vets_ptsd_suit/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.truthdig.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070723_gonzales_among_defendants_in_iraq_vets_ptsd_suit/"><H6 class="date">Posted on Jul 23, 2007</H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070723_gonzales_among_defendants_in_iraq_vets_ptsd_suit/"><P>With the problem of post-traumatic stress disorder on the rise among American veterans returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, two veterans’ groups are filing a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (pictured) and other defendants, citing system-wide failures in dealing with the PTSD crisis on the governmental level. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070723_gonzales_among_defendants_in_iraq_vets_ptsd_suit/"><B>Excerpted from the <A title="complaint" href="http://www.mofo.com/docs/pdf/PTSD070723.pdf">complaint</A> filed by Morrison & Foerster on behalf of the plaintiffs:</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070723_gonzales_among_defendants_in_iraq_vets_ptsd_suit/"> This lawsuit stems from the shameful failures of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs ("VA") and other governmental institutions to meet our nation’s legal and moral obligations to honor and care for our wounded veterans who have served our country.  Because of those failures, hundreds of thousands of men and women who have suffered grievous injuries fighting in the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are being abandoned. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1DDF5BE7-E590-4375-A017-7D09F6E90651/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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