Now I'm getting PTSD. It's from bad grammar.

You're the best Tom, even when you screw up.

...telling lies comes with the profession of advocacy when done without ethics. It is what establishes profit over costs, biblical heritage over the deserving, the ever successful results of coveting and winners in republican primaries. Telling truth causes PTSD - there is always bad accountability for anyone taking the position of Prometheus, Socrates, Diogenes, Galileo, Cato and the hero of "Enemy of the People" by Ibsen.

Especially when ones lies help murder and mutilate innocent women and children during criminal wars of aggression. Imperialism is built on lies and needs proffesional liars just as much as it needs the high school age children to pull the triggers. Amazing what people will do for 30 pieces of silver, especially degenerate government employees. Oh, and I'm sure all the groveling that goes along with it doesn't help much either.

Israeli Major General Amos Gilad beat the British MOD spokesman by at least three full years. Although never serving in a fighting unit, Gilad, who was a military intelligence officer his entire career, applied for at retirement, and received, a disability pension for the nervous trauma that he suffered in his years of intelligence work. That work included, according to his former military intelligence colleagues speaking to the press, delivering to the Knesset intelligence his own version of intelligence findings -- reports that directly contradicted the actual findings of the military intelligence branch.

Gilad nonetheless has gone to serve as a senior aide to successive Israeli ministers of defense and to serve as principal negotiator for Israel with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman.
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The guy is a hustler, alright, and he's worked out an angle to go after disability benefits with more BS.

This stupid episode does highlight one of the problems with PTSD:
a) PTSD is real, and can produce serious and lifelong emotional problems
b) PTSD is a malingerer's dream diagnosis. Anybody including this a***ole can claim to have it, and it's hard to prove otherwise.

The answer isn't too difficult: Many experts believe that the best treatment for PTSD is graded re-exposure, coupled with supportive treatment of various kinds.

Declaring people cripples and giving them disabilty benefits on the other hand greases the rails to what used to be called "compensation neurosis" - people who get sicker out of a conscious or unconscious sense of guilt and a need to justify their claims.