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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=27661" target="_blank">Iraq War Stats - 120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week!</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/17-business" target="_blank">Business</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=a2zme" target="_blank">a2zme</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2007-11-29 01:33:17
<strong>Canadian</strong>

[a2zme]

I don't think that anyone ever imagined that the numbers were that HIGH!

[Thanos]

The Administration/Pentagon claim that soldiers coming back from Iraq wouldn't be treated as awfully as the Vietnam vets were turned out to be as big a lie as the whole WMD/Saddam-is-an-imminent threat falsehoods.

After the disgusting debacle that happened at Walter Reed is anyone really surprised by this? Washington group-think looks at the troops as just a photo-op anyway and so fuck 'em if something debilitating happens to them afterwards. Go figure that veteran's affairs is the one area where the Bush government decides to pretend that they're actually fiscal conservatives. After all, this is the Administration that's demanding that wounded soldiers who are maimed or emotionally fucked-up and can no longer serve have to return their signing bonuses back to the Pentagon.

WORST-AMERICAN-GOVERNMENT-EVAH! January 2009 can't come soon enough.

[camerontech]

those are outrageous numbers, but I read this somewhere not too long ago and it includes ALL war vets, not just Iraq war vets.

[Scape]

Staggering.

FYI it's posted under business and as Canadian, bad form.

[Durandal]

Yeah the knew suicide rate stats of US troups excites very mch all the anti-Americans & ant-militarists.

Always good to compare...

http://www.antagoniste.net/?p=2358

[philowl]

While walking back with a decorated veteran from a graveside ceremony for one of his comrades, referring the pastor's eulogy, he said, "That's all bullshit! We weren't fighting for freedom and democracy. We were fighting to stay alive!"
John Steinbeck, as a war correspondent, wanted to find out first-hand what it was like at the front. He met soldiers just arriving from the front to hear their description of what was happening. "None of them could remember," wrote Steinbeck.
The terror of war must leave deep wounds, even to those unscratched.
The Pentagon? Well, one soldier wrote a book titled, "Generals Die In Bed."

[sasquatch2]

It is interesting to note that those protesting this are the very same element, whose criticizm of the war is a major contributor to those folks feelings of isolation leading to suicide.

[Durandal]

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

It is interesting to note that those protesting this are the very same element, whose criticizm of the war is a major contributor to those folks feelings of isolation leading to suicide.

+ 1

All the leftist deconstructive criticism is partly what makes it so bad. If soldiers were welcomed & depicted less like illiterate warmongers who served in a [insert favorite war adjectice used by pacifist scum here], it would already be WAY easier to be a soldier !

[Joe_Stalin]

$1:

From the mountains of gathered information, they sifted out the suicides of those Americans who had served in the armed forces.

What they discovered is that
in 2005 alone
(and remember, this is just in 45 states )
there were at least 6,256 veteran suicides, 120 every week for a year and an average
of 17 every day....

They sifted out those who served in the forces. Pretty high number if you you believe CBS of Dan Rather fame.

What was the other number? Was the ex servicemen/women 2% or 40% of the total?

If the percentage was high the heading would have been 90% of suicides are vets.

Was year 2005 [s]the warmest[/s] the highest year? Was year 2001 just 20 a year?

What were the average ages of the suicides in 2005? 65?

Too many missing pieces. Looks like a Dan Rather special to me.