This is a critically important article, and it's about time that someone wrote it. Americans need to understand exactly what our military has become - and it is the worst in world history. It has been going on since we brought all the Nazi scientists to the United States after WWII. The military's 'cover story' always makes the soldier look crazy, mentally incompetent. People have been believing these lies for over 60 years. This has been, of course, part of Satan's plans.

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Originally published March 13 2012

Afghanistan massacre by U.S. sergeant reveals epidemic of psychiatric drugging of soldiers

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) The recent massacre of 16 civilians in Afghanistan by a rampaging U.S. military sergeant has something in common with nearly every school shooting in the USA -- something the mainstream media typically refuses to report: These shooters frequently have a history of psychiatric drug "treatment" by psychiatrists.

Psychiatric drugs are now being routinely used across the U.S. military, where violent suicides have skyrocketed to levels never before seen in human history. 18 veterans commit suicide every day, says this NaturalNews article reprinted on CCHR: http://www.cchrint.org/2011/06/04/18-u-s-veterans-commit-suicide-dail...

The story reports:

Prior to the Iraq war, American soldiers in combat zones did not take psychiatric medications, according to PBS Frontline documentary The Wounded Platoon, which aired in May 2010. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/woundedplatoon/etc/synopsis.h...) But by the time of the 2007 surge more than 20,000 of our deployed troops were taking antidepressants and sleeping pills. These drugs allowed soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder to remain in combat when they otherwise could not. "What I use medications for is to treat very specific side effects," said Army psychiatrist Col. George Brandt. "I don’t want somebody in a helpless mode in a combat environment. I want to make sure I don’t have someone with suicidal thoughts where everyone is armed."

PTSD, TBI routinely treated with a cocktail of mind-altering drugs

In the military today, soldiers who suffer TBIs -- Traumatic Brain Injuries -- routinely receive treatment with mind-altering psychiatric drugs. As reported in WIRED (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/afghan-massacre-tbi/):

In an interview with ABC News on Monday, an unnamed source claimed that the sergeant suffered a TBI sometime in a past deployment, either by "hitting his head on the hatch of a vehicle or in a car accident." A subsequent story from Reuters reported that the TBI occurred as recently as 2010. The alleged shooter is said to have later undergone TBI-specific treatment at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, before being cleared for duty and then redeployed. He also reportedly passed typical behavioral health assessments during his enlistment.

TBI's are known as the "signature wounds" of soldiers in the Middle East, reports WIRED, where an astonishing 200,000 soldiers have already been diagnosed with the condition. They are routinely treated with psychiatric drugs that have known side effects of promoting violence.

In 2010, WIRED reported (http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/troops-popping-anxiety-depres...):

An untold number of active-duty troops and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home with mental health conditions inflicted during service — and their spouses and children are suffering too. Now, with solid data slowly emerging from the nearly decade-long wars, the severity of the crisis is starting to show.

The use of psychiatric medications among 18 to 34-year-olds (both troops and their spouses) soared by 42 percent between 2005 and 2009, Army Times is reporting.

Many of the drugs prescribed by military doctors, like Paxil and Zoloft, are also accompanied by warnings about an increased risk of suicide. The danger has already caught the military’s eye, with Army Gen. Peter Ciarelli noting in a recent report that the Army ought to "conduct research to identify appropriate antidepressant medications that are beneficial to the treatment of depression and anxiety, but that will not increase risk for suicidal behavior."

Psychiatric drug use explodes across the military

NavyTimes reports that psychiatric drug use is skyrocketing among military personnel, and that violent behavior (suicides) is a well-known side effect (http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/09/military-psych-meds-080910/):

Prescriptions for stimulants, including amphetamines and drugs to treat attention-deficit disorders, more than doubled. And claims for anti-psychotics like Seroquel and Abilify nearly doubled from 2005 to 2009 among beneficiaries ages 18 to 34, the Tricare data show. Seroquel is often used to treat nightmares and sleeping problems related to post-traumatic stress disorder.

The rise -- and potential dangers -- of psychiatric drug use is a growing concern for many military officials and doctors.

"A lot of neurotransmitters" are involved when troops suffer from complex combinations of mild traumatic brain injury, PTSD, depression, anxiety and substance abuse issues, he said. Cocktails of psychiatric drugs can, in some cases, cause patients to get worse, doctors say.

Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli on July 29 issued a report about the Army’s spike in suicides, noting that some psychiatric drugs -- including Paxil and Zoloft, the only two approved for PTSD -- come with warnings about the potential for increased risk for suicide.