Excellent article from the V. V. A. about the VA and PTSD

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http://www.vva.org/veteran/0606/vva_article1.html

[Gimpy]

This is an excellent article.

But, it's evidently about two or more years old. It refers to that "toliet, toe-taping" Republican Senator Larry Craig as "The Chaiman of The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee" and Republican Congressman Steven Buyer as "Chairman of The House Veterans Affiars Committee"............

They BOTH lost these "Chairmanships" when the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006. Democratic Senator Daniel Akakia now is Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and Democratic Congressman Bob Filner is Chairman of the House Veterans Affais Committee........THANK GOD!

It does however, emphasis CORRECTLY how the Republican Leadership in Congress has aligned themselves with that a$$hole of a so-called "psycologist-gun-for-hire"....Dr Salley Satel.

This quote from the article just about says it all.

And I quote,.....

"VA officials and Congress are “concerned about money,” says Dr. Sally Satel, one of the most vocal PTSD skeptics. But, said Satel, they “can’t say it too loudly.” Instead, officials rely on people like Satel, a former VA psychiatrist who is now a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, to wage a campaign to discredit PTSD as a diagnosis and portray veterans who suffer from it as looking for easy disability benefits that provide an incentive for staying sick rather than getting well. The implication is sick veterans are welfare cheats."

End quote.

What a bitch she really is..........shows you how much the "conservatives" really care about this disease, huh?


Gimp

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I didn't realize it was that old, but it still rings true. Coupled with that internal memo, it doesn't paint a pretty picture.

Larry