US Army suicides highest since 1990

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Author: Vitalogy
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 1:31 pm
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Yet another bad side effect of Bush's terrible decision to go to war. Should these soldiers be counted as part of the official number of US troops killed?

Author: Talpdx
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 10:49 pm
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What’s troubling about this situation is how the White House was very late to take the whole matter of responding to injured soldiers, sailors, airman and marines seriously. When the GOP was in control of the purse, they had little interest in spending the appropriate funds to help finance the needs of a growing veteran’s population. Report after report shows veterans waiting to get help, especially those suffering from PTSD.

When pressed, the administration was far from honest about the numbers of Iraq/Afghanistan war veterans committing suicide. CBS News did a whole report on the matter and how they were lied to when attempting to get information on the subject.

I'm sure that at some point in the future, we'll find ourselves another reading a later day version of the "Pentagon Papers".

Author: Littlesongs
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:33 pm
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Everyone should get to know one of our brave fallen heroes.

His name is 1st Sgt. Jeff McKinney. His story is in the latest Army Times.

I really hate this damn war.


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