117 United States Army soldiers committed suicide during 2007!
That statistic was announced today and is the highest number of soldiers to take their own lives in a single year since the army has kept records.
As shocking as that number is, it is probably lower than the actual count would be without the Pentagon and the administration manipulating such statistics.
Just like the PTSD statistics, those two entities make every effort to keep the truth from the American people. The new diagnosis being used to reduce the number diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is "Adjustment Disorder." This ridiculous term was chosen to describe "those having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life after serving in a war zone."
Sound familiar? Our illustrious leadership in the executive branch and the military-industrial complex redefining things so they sound more acceptable to the average American. You know, like "collateral damage" instead of dead human beings.
If there were 117 "official" suicides among army soldiers during 2007, doesn't it make you wonder how many deaths that were actually suicides were attributed to other causes?
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and the rest of the arrogant, incompetent leadership who lied our country into this shameful war should be forced to look into the eyes of the families of each of these suicide victims before they are allowed to move on with their own lives and forget the horror they created.
117 suicides in 2007 alone! 4083 dead from combat in Iraq! Hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians! Each and every one of the souls who are no longer here for their families are the direct responsibility of the Bush/Cheney cabal.
"We The People" MUST begin to take our country back from the monsters who have stolen our Executive Branch.