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Considers Opening Public Schools To Sex Suits By Colleen Slevin, AP Writer Save It Email It Print It (AP) DENVER In trying to allow childhood victims of sex abuse to sue the Roman Catholic Church, state lawmakers are now faced with whether to also open up public schools - and taxpayers - to lawsuits of their own.Senate Bill 143 wou...

... ZNet Sending mentally ill soldiers back to Iraq: ZNet Top Recent Iraq Women and War Bush Didn't Bungle Logic of Withdrawal Atwar Bahjat More Iraq Recent Soldz Why Leave Iraq More on Iraq Body Count Narcissist Bush Sex & US troops All by Soldz Search Z Magazine Z Blogs Watches Resources Languages Parecon Sustainers Purchases About Us Sending mentally ill soldiers back to Iraq: Reckless disregard for soldiers' welfare and for Iraqi lives by Stephen Soldz March 26, 2006 Printer Friendly Version EMail Article to a Friend As the US military has difficulties recruiting and retaining soldiers for its never-ending war of occupation in Iraq, the armed services are resorting to increasingly desperate means of coping.

The Stop-Loss option in soldiers' contracts has allowed soldiers to be kept in uniform months or years after their term of service has expired.

The National Guard has been sent overseas to a previously unprecedented extent.

And military standards have been lowered, so that drug or alcohol abuse, pregnancy, and poor fitness no longer necessarily lead to dismissal of new recruits.

  Now word comes that "mentally ill" troops are being sent back to Iraq.

[See: Some troops headed back to Iraq are mentally ill] This article refers to "a little-discussed truth fraught with implications," but the implications discussed all have to do with the effects on the soldiers being returned, and these soldiers' "effectiveness in combat." In many instances, being ret...

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