Veterans Return From Iraq Disabled and Homeless

Studies find a high percentage of Iraq veterans are returning home with mental problems and homeless shelters around the country are reporting they are already seeing some recently returned Iraq veterans showing up in need of shelter. Amy speaks with UPI Investigations editor Mark Benjamin. As I’ve said before, it’s up to us, the community, to care for these vets, as the government and military has proven unwilling to care for them time and time again. Remember that these soldiers are our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our sons and daughters.

A suicide bomber killed at least seven Iraqis at an entrance to the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Monday. The U.S. military said no U.S. soldiers were hurt in the bombing that comes a day after seven U.S. Marines were killed in two separate incidents west of Baghdad.

The attack comes a year to the day since U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein. At that time, President Bush and U.S. military commanders hoped the former president’s arrest would weaken the Iraqi resistance. But, violence has continued unabated and the death rate among U.S. troops has risen dramatically.

Nearly 1,300 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the war began. Many thousands more have been wounded. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the US is facing a “severe shortage of surgeons in Iraq” to treat wounded soldiers. It is now estimated that more soldiers have been injured in Iraq than during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, or the first five years of the Vietnam conflict.

And in what appears to be a chilling echo of the Vietnam war, UPI found that homeless shelters around the country are reporting they are already seeing some recently returned…

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