Army Tests Brains of Men Going into Combat


	Army Tests Brains of Men Going into Combat

mbthorman

9-20-2007 12:04 PM

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computers, cover-up, dangers, government, health, mind_boggling, politics, unintended consequenses

mbthorman says:

The unintended consequences of the war in Iraq is that thousands of people including our military units are becoming permanently brain damaged with diseases that look like personality disorders (read crazy and dangerous). How many are killed is reported. How many are left permanently (and sometimes dangerously) disabled is not reported. Scary.

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9-20-2007 1:03 PM

ReverendMarkCom

Anyone know who got the contract to do this study? I think it would be interesting to know.

9-21-2007 6:11 AM

tabsey

the armless, the legless, the blind, the insane will no more go waltzing Matilda. (Eric Bogle, "And the band played Waltzing Matilda"

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