IRAQ WAR's secret- Check the drugs!

From Daily Kos:

It's an open secret- Big Phama is experimenting on our troops in quest of a pill that will convert our soldiers into sleepless zombies who will kill with no feeling and there are numerous products flooding into the combat zone without any public studies as to long range effects. There's unbelievable companies working in Iraq proposing unbelievable things for our bodies through chemistry.


This leads me to the current clusterf**k we find ourselves mired in. If you know someone fighting there, I suggest you ask them about the drugs. Or their aftereffects. Or how prevalent they are. In this openly for-profit venture with poisonous DU leading the way as a recycled for profit metal, big pharma sees a test group, and combine that with altpharma-aka, drug dealers and abusers, and you get stuff that seems illogical, otherworldly behaviors inexplicable except to say "in the fog of war".

To fight boredom and disgust, said Clif Hicks, who had left a tank squadron at Camp Slayer in Baghdad, soldiers popped Benzhexol, five pills at time. Normally used to treat Parkinson's disease, the drug is a strong hallucinogenic when abused. "People were taking steroids, Valium, hooked on painkillers, drinking. They'd go on raids and patrols totally stoned."

"There were problems in Kilo Company with drugs, alcohol, hazing, you name it," said the woman. "I think it's more than possible that these guys were totally tweaked out on speed or something when they shot those civilians in Haditha."

The saddest and ugliest story was told to a NEWSWEEK reporter by a 12-year-old girl named Safa Younis. When the Marines entered her house that morning, she fled with her mother into a bathroom. A soldier followed them, shooting, she says. When the soldiers left, Safa tried to talk to her mother, but she was covered with blood. "Mama, Mama," cried the girl, until she realized that her mother was dead. So was her father, whom she found lying near the kitchen door. And her aunt, and her five siblings—all shot to death. "I was sorry for staying in the bathroom. I should have died like them," recalls Safa, who now lives with a cousin. "The Americans are murderers, criminals. They have no mercy."