War Offcasts

Over at the "Political Animals" blog, Kevin Drum has been busy today.  Two very interesting (and important) posts.  Both dealing with the Iraq War and its impact on people.

Personality Disorders

.Over at Watching Those We Chose, Blue Girl has the latest on personality disorder discharges, the military's way of dumping soldiers who sustain psychiatric damage during war by claiming that their problems are merely preexisting conditions that they'd had [...]

Progress Report

So how are we doing on training the Iraqi security forces? Compare and contrast:September 2005: The number of Iraqi army battalions that can fight insurgents without U.S. and coalition help has dropped from three to one, top U.S. generals [...]

Tags: Iraq War, Personality Disorder Discharges, Iraqi Security Forces