For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat (462). “If you… know the one thing that causes people to commit suicide, please let us know,” General Peter Chiarelli told the Army Times, “because we don’t know.” Suicide is a tragic but predictable human reaction to being asked to kill – and watch your friends be killed – for a war based on lies. Perhaps being forced to bag the mangled flesh of fellow soldiers could be another reason why some are committing suicide.
TVNL Comment: The military is nothing more than a murder machine used by the ruling elite. Their missions have been imoral for generations. There has not been one legitimate mission for our military since WWII. Every deployment was based on a lie and we now know that every time they have been sent to murder it is for a reason different than they and we have been told. They are not heroes to anyone and nobody knows that better than our government. And you can see how much they care about their so called heroes by the way they disgard them when they can no longer murder for us.
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