Nearly one in five American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has suffered some sort of brain injury, ranging from mild concussions to much more severe head wounds, according to a widely-reported study released today. In addition, roughly the same number say they have mental problems (depression, PTSD) as a result of their tours in a war zone. (To be sure, many of those probably overlap.)That's in addition to 4,000 dead and 30,000 seriously wounded, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who've died violent deaths since US forces arrived. We've got to get them all home soon, and -- though voting for a Democratic in November may not get them here immediately -- voting for John McCain insures that those numbers will keep rising well into the future.
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