Military Members with Mental Health Issues aren't strong

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according to Trump:

http://wpo.st/WxK22

Daily Beast: Draft-Dodger Donald Trump Implies PTSD Sufferers Are Weak

Isn't that why he dodged the draft?

In most cases I would say the criticism is an example of unnecessary politically correct overparsing of words to find the most negative interpretation and that is probably what occured, but Trump has proven over and over again he deserves assumptions of negative intent.

I don't see him as someone who would have survived the Bataan death march.The majority of people that go thru an ordeal like this will have issues later.People process trauma differently.

I'd hate to say it, but I watched the video, and it sounds not like he wants to insult soldiers with ptsd, and advocates better services to vets with ptsd. I don't like trump, he's a racist yada yada yada, but this time, it's actually true that I feel the headline is disproved by the actual video.

Honestly do they have to keep making s**t up? Trump has a enough gaffs all on his own.

And do we really want a military that has active members with mental issues. Oh how everyone cries when these people stress out and snap and kill innocent by the dozens. Or just kill their wife when they get home.

But still it must be addressed Uncle Sam also tells us if he breaks us he'll fix us and he has been shirking that duty since the 80s. Absolutely denying us since the 90s

I avoided PSTD and Saudi Syndrome. I also denied and refused expired vet grade anthrax shots ( I loaded it and said ... for me? Um nnnope) and I refused those untested crappy pills that were to give you a 50/50 chance of not having reactions to nerve toxins. I played the gender card . Might be pregnant (heh, only by immaculate conception back then). Never had my knee repaired. Don't have disability for any unset broken bones or other malaises directly caused by service. I manage but what of those who can't?

Distortions like this are why Trump supporters don't trust the MSM:

http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/04/the-r ... omments-sh

I agree with what Trump is saying which is when Vets come back they have been through so much hell that normal civilian life isn't even close to being the same. They have nightmares, they are constantly "on guard" and have tremendous anxiety, can't hold down jobs - that's why they are suicidal. They don't know how to function normally anymore. That's why they abuse drugs and alcohol. They need help and to be supported. Not just thrown back into regular life and expected to act the same as everyone else.

I don't see anything wrong with what he said, he was talking about how hard it was for veterans

more manufactured outrage

From militarytimes.com, Paul Rieckhoff, CEO and founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said that "every national leader has responsibility to use accurate and appropriate language when talking about mental health" or related issues. "Terms like 'killing yourself' or 'mental problems' and any suggestion that suicide only impacts the weak perpetuates stigma, can promote contagion and may discourage people from getting help".

They should get access to help as soon as they get back - they shouldn't have to ask for it.

Again, I know what Trump means. The other side is just "knit picking" again as usual. Under our current "president" the Vets were never treated worse. The current administration has no room to talk.

From an objective standpoint, the article title is sensationalist, but what he said is still pretty bad. He's trying to point out that veterans endure horrific things and that mental health treatment is important. At the same time, though, he did literally say what the article title suggests. It's more subtle and probably reflects a societal stigma more than anything, since he means to imply that the people in attendance are too strong to have those problems rather than actually berating people who suffer from them. It's still pretty awful, but it's less of a personal flaw and more of a reflection of the societal stigma regarding mental illness filtered through the lens of someone who has all the tact of a bull elephant high on ketamine in a store that sells mirrors and fine pottery.

I think this is what everyone means when political correctness has gone too far, nothing Trump said was bad and the sentiment he expressed towards soldiers suffering with PTSD and other mental illness/brain injury was empathy and stressed the importance of mental health care. Trump mentions taking care of the vets in literally almost all of his speeches, people looking to be offended by everything seem to find things in abundance. Soldiers won't be offended by this because it is obvious what he is saying, only PC SJW language police types and blind partisans.