The Maverick Conservative

Never doubt me.  You should be learning not to by now.  Remember my entry earlier today with the P.S. about how leftists are trying to USE our troops and veterans by professing "concern" over their mental health, as a back door way of opposing the War in Iraq (:now that violence in Iraq is at a FOUR YEAR LOW, and the troop surge appears to be successful).  Well, does this story TONIGHT from the despicable AP, featured on AOL, not show how right I was (lead paragraph quoted, and my response):

"The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildup in Iraq and increased violence there and in Afghanistan."

NUTS (the famous reply to the Nazis at Bastogne).  The Associated Press is hopeless.

DIAGNOSIS of PTSD increased 50%.  It is intherently implausible (I would say impossible) that the actual CONDITION increased 50%.   There has been an EMPHASIS on PTSD by various groups, AND the AP.  What do you expect? The DIAGNOSIS is going to explode.  This is for two reasons:  More treatment and evaluation available (a goog thing), and more inclination to make the diagnosis on lesser symptoms (not necessarily a good thing).

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