Local Paper Uncovers Another Apparent Soldier Suicide In Iraq

Editor and Publisher:

Hundreds of U.S. troops in Iraq have committed suicide since the war began in 2003, though this subject is kept quiet by the military. As E&P has documented in recent months, the deaths are announced as "noncombat" with the only details that they are "under investigation." But local newspapers often find out the true cause from surviving family or friends, and occasionally from nearby military bases.

Some 130 are now officially listed as suicides in Iraq but dozens more being probed, and then there are the suicides in Afghanistan, and hundreds or thousands more back in the U.S., as CBS News recently revealed. Now there is probably one more.

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Comments

[SaintN]

But surely their deaths are making America a better place,free from terrorism!

These soldiers are now heroes thanks to the righteous leadership of George W.Bush!