ANYTIME THE VA WANTS ANOTHER STUDY OF PTSD -
WE HAVE B.G. BURKETT'S "STOLEN VALOR" TO THANK!
Not having the balls to blatantly stab Veterans in the back here in the United States, B.G. Burkett and his right-wing Tugboat crew of Veterans for Bush have taken their "Stolen Valor" views to turn back the clock on research and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) across the border to Canada for discussion.
In doing follow up research on the roll of toilet paper "Stolen Valor," I ran across this association to B.G. Burkett.
A 2005 Guest Editorial in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry called "Troubles in Traumatology" in which Burkett is thanked for his contributions and comments, although B.G. Burkett is neither a Psychiatrist nor has a PhD in Psychology. What is wrong with this picture?
I give proper LINK to the article and paraphrase extracts from those parts that are of interest to Veterans and Military Families only. I had to rewrite it to translate the medical jargon.
What I wish to highlight is the fact that the same arguments and attacks made here are the same excuse made by Neo-Cons in the Congress, Bush appointees within the VA itself, plus anyone else who supports yet another look at (study of)PTSD. Folks it is all just more right-wing NEO-CON smoke and mirrors to DIVERT more money from the VA to pay for the War in Iraq without having to Repeal Tax Cuts for those not sacrificing anything for the War Effort.
The smoking gun: Check out who paid for this Guest Editorial to appear in a Foreign Journal? A grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (Grant Number MH 61268 to be exact) That is right U.S. taxpayer money is being used against America's Veterans. If that is not grounds enough for Veterans to raise Holy Hell, I don't know what else will get you off your feet to protect yourselves. If the right-wingers will go after PTSD using taxpayer money, what will be next Agent Orange?
Note also that the Department of Veterans Affairs has contracted with (you got it) the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD to do yet another study on PTSD. How fair would any study be? Read on to find out.
Bobby "Indy Thinker" Hanafin
Extracts from the article, "Troubles in Traumatology," By Richard J. McNally, PhD.1
Read Bobby's Post...
But I'll leave you with a thought:
A recent Incident just may have the Detrimental Effects on a certain person to bring on a case of his own PTSD.
And that Certain Person is none other than big brave pRes. dick cheney, wonder if he's still sleeping soundly, this time he was Witness to what happens!!
Than again maybe not!!
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