Pentagon Cover Up: 15,000 or more US casualties in Iraq War
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The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it.
15,000 or more US casualties in Iraq War
Here's a video to the story Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans
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15,000 or more US casualties in Iraq War
The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it.
CBS’s Investigative Unit wanted to do a report on the number of suicides in the military and “submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense”. After 4 months they received a document which showed--that between 1995 and 2007--there were 2,200 suicides among “active duty” soldiers.
Baloney.
The Pentagon was covering up the real magnitude of the “suicide epidemic”. Following an exhaustive investigation of veterans’ suicide data collected from 45 states; CBS discovered that in 2005 alone “THERE WERE AT LEAST 6,256 AMONG THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES. THAT’S 120 EACH AND EVERY WEEK IN JUST ONE YEAR.”
That is not a typo. Active and retired military personnel, mostly young veterans between the ages of 20 to 24, are returning from combat and killing themselves in record numbers. We can assume that "multiple-tours of duty" in a war-zone have precipitated a mental health crisis of which the public is entirely unaware and which the Pentagon is in total denial.
If we add the 6,256 suicide victims from 2005 to the “official” 3,865 reported combat casualties; we get a sum of 10,121. Even a low-ball estimate of similar 2004 and 2006 suicide figures, would mean that the total number of US casualties from the Iraq war now exceed 15,000.
That’s right; 15,000 dead US servicemen and women in a war that--as yet--has no legal or moral justification.
Here's a video to the story Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans
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As a Marine veteran of Just Cause and the first Gulf war I need to say that even one suicide is one too many but the CBS story is very flawed. They compared to numbers that have no demographic relation. The military is over 80% male and approx 60 % white, and 74% in the 18 to 30 age range. If you compare suicide rates keeping the demographics consistent the difference in suicide rates is less than .3 percent.(They did not take age into account) Enough with the scare mongering. If this is the best the press can do we will never get to the real problems this country faces
Interesting.
To me...the numbers are tragic, but not unexpected, no matter which way they're spun. It is only common sense for someone to be more likely to kill themselves after being exposed to the things those soldiers are...after committing the acts they commit. It's all a disgusting waste of life, and I bet most of those dead soldiers would agree with me.
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I dont get what they are trying to say here. So, there were not 6,256 suicide victims in 2005...? Help me here.
He is saying that if you compare civilian suicide rates amongst white males in the 18-30 range to the same demographic in the military, the difference is minimal...he isn't denying the actual number of suicides. But I have no idea what numbers he was using for this demographic comparison of his....