{"id":15475,"date":"2009-11-05T21:14:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15475"},"modified":"2009-11-05T21:14:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T02:14:06","slug":"dahr-jamail-another-carrion-bird-swooping-in-for-a-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15475","title":{"rendered":"Dahr Jamail: Another Carrion Bird Swooping in for a feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Dahr, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/11050912\">go fuck yourself<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The soldier says that the mood on the base is \u201cvery grim,\u201d and that even before this incident, troop morale has been very low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say it\u2019s at an all-time low &#8211; mostly because of Afghanistan now,\u201d he explained. \u201cNobody knows why we are at either place, and I believe the troops need to know why they are there, or we should pull out, and this is a unanimous feeling, even for folks who are pro-war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>While soldiers returning home are routinely involved in shootings, suicide and other forms of self-destructive violent behavior as a direct result of their experiences in Iraq, we have yet to see an event of this magnitude take place in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Mark Thompson also has reported in Time magazine, \u201cData contained in the Army\u2019s fifth Mental Health Advisory Team report indicate that, according to an anonymous survey of US troops taken last fall, about 12 percent of combat troops in Iraq and 17 percent of those in Afghanistan are taking prescription antidepressants or sleeping pills to help them cope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April 2008, the RAND Corporation released a stunning report revealing, \u201cNearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan &#8211; 300,000 in all &#8211; report symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slightly more than half have sought treatment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again for the cheap seats.<\/p>\n<p>This smoker of poles DID NOT SERVE OVERSEAS.  You want a reason for the shooting?  At least make an effort to find one that fits the facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Dahr, go fuck yourself. The soldier says that the mood on the base is \u201cvery &hellip; <a title=\"Dahr Jamail: Another Carrion Bird Swooping in for a feast\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15475\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dahr Jamail: Another Carrion Bird Swooping in for a feast<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}