Army suicides higher than in 26 years

Um if soldiers had mental illness before iraq why in earth did our army accept them into the force!!??

That is so tastless to treat even one suicide like that. The fact is that this war is hurting people and we are not helping them. We are letting them die as a casuality of war but I guess since it was not at the hand of a muslim it doesn't count.
But of course it easy to make of it sense for you to ignore the damage this useless war is doing to our men.

That is so tastless to treat even one suicide like that.

The fact is that this war is hurting people and we are not helping them.

We are letting them die as a casuality of war but I guess since it was not at the hand of a muslim it doesn't count.

But of course it easy to make of it sense for you to ignore the damage this useless war is doing to our men.

Darn you Drnaline... I was just going to point out that many of soldiers die each year due to job accidents, poor health, etc. and that it exceeds the deaths lost as casualties of war.

Suicide is a sad thing. How many of these very same people would have committed suicide if they weren't in the armed service? Probably a good number of them as they probably already had emitonal problems.

How many of these were on anti-depressants? Probably a good many of them.

Isn't the suicide rate in the US somewhere around 11 for every 100,000 people?