The leftist blogs are dragging out all of the PTSD crap the can find in reaction to last week’s shootings at Fort Hood. That’s how I found this interview from about six months ago by Aaron Glantz.<\/p>\n
Aaron Glantz calls himself a journalist, and I suppose he is, marginally in that the Left gives him a megaphone to broadcast his drivel. He’s written wildly successful books like “How America Lost Iraq”, “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations<\/a>” and lately “The War Comes Home; Washington’s War Against Veterans<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Some of the IVAW refugees tell me that he screwed them out of the money he promised them for their stories for the Winter Soldiers book, so that’s how I approached this interview he did on this Progressive.org radio interview; this interview he did on this Progressive.org radio interview; <\/a><\/p>\n He begins by proving that he can’t count. He tells how he spent three years off and on in Iraq between March 2003 and February 2005. I dunno how he squeezed 3 years into 24 months, but apparently if you count 2003, 2004 and 2005 that makes three years, huh?<\/p>\n The he goes into counting PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury cases in the military – he’s says there’s 300,000 TBIs and 300,000 PTSD cases in the military since 2003. Funny, but in May 2008, there were 40,000 PTSD cases across all of the services since 2003<\/a>. So unless there have been 260,000 new PTSD cases in the last year or so, Glantz is lying. As for TBIs – that right wing propaganda outlet TruthOut says<\/a> there were 10,000 at the end of 2008 across all of the services.<\/p>\n In the interview, Glantz says that the Bush Administration hid these 600,000 casualties – both of the links above are to TruthOut, hardly a Bush mouthpiece. He says “the current administration” (he can’t seem to call it the Obama Administration as easily as he named the Bush Administration, for some reason) is continuing the practice.<\/p>\n Then he goes on to recount how he was almost killed in Iraq because US soldiers target journalists. He said he was stopped by a soldier from “Alabama – possibly Mississippi” whose helmet was too big for his head…and, oh…he was a really skinny and stupid-looking redneck who couldn’t tell Glantz wasn’t an Iraqi because Glantz has Mediterranean features. because all of our troops are stupid, racist rednecks – is it any wonder they all have PTSD when they have to deal with idiots like Glantz as well as al Qaeda.<\/p>\n Then, even though his books are about the war in Iraq, he says he avoided US troops (because they were killing more journalists than al Qaeda). How can he write a book about our war in Iraq if he avoided US troops…for three years compressed into two?<\/p>\n Well, Aaron, since the first half of your interview was bullshit, how can I believe the rest of it? If you’re interested, I’ve seen all of Glantz’ books in the bargain bin at Amazon<\/a> – shipping will cost you more than the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"