The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq

[IChing]

March 11, 2007 | FORT BENNING, Ga. -- "This is not right," said Master Sgt. Ronald Jenkins, who has been ordered to Iraq even though he has a spine problem that doctors say would be damaged further by heavy Army protective gear. "This whole thing is about taking care of soldiers," he said angrily. "If you are fit to fight you are fit to fight. If you are not fit to fight, then you are not fit to fight."

As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records.

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http://www.salon.com/news/2007/03/11/fort_benning/

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Am sending this on to KO

The * Administration needs to be seen for the horrible regime it has always been. :mad:

[Monkeyman]

3. This is not new they send kids back with mental problems

[brentspeak]

2. Good grief, it just gets more and more surreal.

[fooj]

4. This is an outrage.

Why is this allowed to happen? Where's the Senate? The Congress? The American people? These soldiers must feel completely abandoned. :(

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

5. Thus the term "cannon fodder".

Who here is surprised? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

[Monkeyman]

6. One word to this is FUBAR

[Doctor_J]

7. Don't worry - Brian and Charlie and Katie will be all over this tomorrow

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[lpbk2713]

8. *Madness! .... Madness!*

This sounds just like the megalomaniac Colonel Nicholson in the Bridge on the River Kwai when he went to the POW camp hospital to get more workers in order to get his bridge completed in time. It sounds just like another megalomaniac - AWOL Monkey Boy.

[rocktivity]

9. Some of the troops can no longer wear body armor? WHAT body armor?

rocknation