Support the Troops, huh?
They can't live with themselves because of the things they've done in Bush's name.
How would you like to wake up one day and realize you are a Nazi, readers?
Could you live with yourself (most AmeriKans do)?
"Soldier suicide rate hits record high; 115 dead in '07; Army says toll climbing in '08" by Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press | May 30, 2008
WASHINGTON - Army soldiers committed suicide in 2007 at the highest rate on record, and the toll is climbing ever higher this year as long war deployments stretch on.
At least 115 soldiers killed themselves last year, up from 102 the previous year, the Army said yesterday.
That number seems awfully low to me:
Nearly a third of them died at the battlefront, 32 in Iraq and four in Afghanistan. But 26 percent had never been deployed to either conflict.
"We see a lot of things that are going on in the war which do contribute - mainly the longtime and multiple deployments away from home, exposure to really terrifying and horrifying things, the easy availability of loaded weapons, and a force that's very, very busy right now," said Colonel Elspeth Ritchie, psychiatric consultant to the Army surgeon general.
"And so all of those together we think are part of what may contribute, especially if somebody's having difficulties already," she said at a Pentagon news conference.
Some common factors among those who took their own lives were troubled relationships, work problems, and legal or financial difficulties, officials said.
As if the HORROR of WAR is only INCIDENTAL!!! Suck MSM!!!
More US troops also died overall in hostilities in 2007 than in any of the previous years in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And yet, the MSM SOLD US THIS as a SUCCESS!!!!!
They are good, aren't they, because MOST AmeriKans BOUGHT IT!!!!
Violence increased in Afghanistan with a Taliban resurgence, and the rate of deaths of US personnel increased in Iraq even as violence there declined in the second half of the year.
Huh? Are those not CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS?
Increasing the strain on the force last year was the extension of deployments from 12 months to 15 months....
But Bush supports the troops!!!
The suicide rate continues to rise despite a host of efforts the Army has made to improve the mental health of a force under unprecedented stress from the longer-than-expected war in Iraq and the long and repeated tours of duty it has prompted.
IMPROVE WHAT?!?
By DENYING THEM the diagnosis they need?
See: V.A. To Combat Combat Stress
Support the troops? Pffffft!!!
The efforts include more training and education programs for troops and their families. Officials also have hired more mental health workers, increased screening to measure the psychological health of soldiers, and worked to reduce any stigma that keeps them from going for treatment when they have symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, or other emotional problems....
Pffffft!!! Didn't you see the link above, readers?
Are YOU sick of being LIED TO?
Suicides have been rising nearly each year of the five-year-old war in Iraq and the nearly seven years of war in Afghanistan...."
Then LET'S GET the HELL OUT NOW!!!!!!!
Unless you want to continue to DIE for LIES, America!!!!
In that case, I have no respect for you anymore -- which is why you get the mouth!!!!
