Pentagon forcing U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq to take Prozac and other drug

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" Vigilius Haufniensis " <nerdmann

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:12:36 -0500

Pentagon forcing U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq to take

Prozac and other drugs

 

 

 

 

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

 

Pentagon forcing U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq to take Prozac and

other drugs for anxiety and depression.

 

 

June 29, 2006 -- The anti-Iraq war group, Military Families Speak Out

(www.mfso.org), is conducting a vigil outside the Cannon House Office

Building. Anne Roesler of California, whose son will be soon serving

his third Iraq tour with the 82nd Airborne Division, and Elizabeth

Frederick of New York, whose boyfriend is serving in Iraq with the New

York National Guard, are receiving some surprising comments and rather

lukewarm support from Senate and House members, Republican and

Democratic. Although the group, which has placed boots and shoes

representing dead U.S. military members and Iraqi civilians near the

House office buildings, has received support from a few Democrats, the

reaction to their vigil by some, including California Democratic

Senator Dianne Feinstein, has been hostile. One House member passed

their display of boots and shoes and turned around and shouted, " Just

get over it! " Another staffer said, " don't you people remember what

happened on 911? " There were no connections between 911 and Iraq.

 

U.S. military personnel in Iraq are caught in a dangerous and

nightmarish vise created by neo-con politicians in Washington. U.S.

troops are being forced to take drugs like Prozac and Seroquel for

anxiety and depression. Troops cannot refuse to take the drugs without

consequences from their superiors. Resistance by U.S. troops to their

orders is also running high. Some U.S. military patrols decline to

carry out their " search and kill " missions and, instead, return to

their bases claiming they carried out their orders.

 

Another neo-con outrage: Pentagon forcing U.S. soldiers and Marines in

Iraq to take Prozac and other drugs for anxiety and depression.

 

Incidents of suicide among U.S. troops in Iraq is also reaching

troubling levels. There are also reports of defections by U.S. troops

to neighboring Turkey, Iran, and Syria, where they can get passage to

Europe and Russia.

 

Incidents of fighting between regular U.S. military personnel and

private military contractors, who wear uniforms similar to those worn

by regular U.S. soldiers and Marines, is also increasing. U.S. troops

are frustrated that they come under attack for atrocities carried out

by private contractors who receive triple and quadruple the salaries

U.S. military personnel receive. This situation has created a

tinderbox between U.S. troops and private contractors.

 

Visit http://www.veteransforamerica.org/ for more information on the

plight of our troops in Iraq and veterans of the quagmire into which

the neo-cons have plunged our military.