Iraq War vet, 32, 'attacks two elderly veterans during drunk rampage at his wedding reception'

Originally posted by CX
You can't blame all incidents of drunken aggression on combat.....it happens every day and night of the week to people that have never set foot near the army.

It's not necessarily combat, it's the vaccines and exposure to chemicals that is causing vets to have both physical and mental health problems.

Point is people shouldn't judge this veteran, because who knows what he was exposed to in service.

He should not have done what he did, but let's not just dismiss the guy as a violent drunk, we should be seeing this as a warning. The military is doing this to the troops. Where was the public outrage about what they did to the troops in the first Gulf War? Don't condemn demand something be done.

About one-fourth of the 700,000 veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War developed symptoms that include chronic headaches, widespread pain, memory and concentration problems, persistent fatigue, gastrointestinal problems, skin abnormalities and mood disturbances."

Not on that list is, osteoporosis, degenerative joint disease, ALS, Parkinson's.

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