Returning Iraq troops said stressed

Military medical officials, however, cautioned against people reading their data as suggesting the war had driven so many soldiers over the edge. Instead, they characterized the anxiety and stress as normal reactions to combat, seeing dead and mutilated bodies, and feeling helpless to stop a violent situation.

Ritchie said mental health cases ebb and flow during a war, and suggested they are sometimes connected to a soldier's sense of success of the larger war effort. During the Korean War, cases increased when U.S. forces were losing ground but decreased as the situation improved, she said.

So here we have the foot soliers for the empire, not getting the billions in corporate welfare that their puppetmasters are, but it really is just a perception management problem, an issue of spin; just make the poor slobs believe that their genocidal mission is a success, and they will not end up homicidal and homeless back here in amurika.