The military has released figures showing record suicide rates that show more soldiers are dying by their own hand than those of the enemy. In just the Army alone, 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide in January. That is six times the number from 2008.
During the same period, all of the branches lost 16 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq in January.
One official has described the findings as “terrifying.”
The Marines are also reporting an increase in suicides: 41 in 2008, up from 33 in 2007 and 25 in 2006, according to a Marines report.
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BobEsq:
you will have to do better than John Dean. I did not even bother to look at that. Dean is not a conservative and is a hand maiden for the left.
There are definitely serious issues of authoritarianism on both the left and the right. The constitution is in a shambles but it was not Bush that did it, he inherited it from a long line of bad decisions. What was the first one Marbury vs. Madison? Didnt that enhance the power of the court tremendously? Wasnt there some worry at the beginning that the judicial branch would become to powerful with no real limitations on their powers?
Bron98:
“on this site if you believe as you do you are a presumed idiot until confirmed.
Be careful about mentioning PNAC they will crucify you, and also dont say that waterboarding may not actually be torture, they will go into paroxysms of disbelief.”
I’m your huckleberry.
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/02/03/going-for-the-acapulco-gold-phelps-may-be-criminally-charged-over-pot-pictures/#comment-38076
Violence usually works best when dealing with thugs.
Ok, childrens. That’s enough play time with Buddha. It’s time to go.
Bron98 1, February 6, 2009 at 5:48 pm
PattyC:
‘there is your proof both posts are at 5:45 pm. you have substituted TDS (troll derangement syndrome) for BDS.’
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Nice try.
So you bring up more than one search engine at the same time
– ‘Yahoo-whooooo’…
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Doubting my service doesnt mean i didnt serve. I could honestly care less if you really think i served. We are not trained on how not to and how to start wars. We are trained how to fight them. That has nothing to do with how i feel we should handle Iran or Korea.
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You are starting to bore me. Violence as a solution to everything is a perfect example of sociopathic and psychopathic behavior. You aren’t helping your case for not being removed from political process and decision making any more more than you’ve previously helped disprove the criminality of those you support. In fact, you make what I originally said sound better and better. You’re visibly mentally defective.
in a perfect world one takes a baseball bat and beats hell out of the taunting bully before he has the chance to do the same to you. North Korea should already be a part of a unified Korea and Iran should be a secular state. But our foreign policy is America last and the law of moral equivalence.
We now have, thanks to GW, a nuclear armed Iran with ballistic capabilities.
And knowing a threat and dealing with it and starting a war are not the same thing. I have to say, I really doubt you served, chris. Our strategic and tactical training is better than that. The best way to deal with an adversary is the one that reduces your troops and resources the LEAST. That’s basic. Sun Tzu knew that and I’m pretty sure the USMC knows that too.
I try
Jingoism again! The political view of violent sociopaths. Excellent. At least your consistent.
It doesnt really matter because i believe we did act responsibly and you arent going to change my mind with your giberish. I believe Saddam needed to be removed, as i believe our little Koren friend needs to be removed, as does ahmadinejad. They all seek to do us harm, and its naive to think otherwise.
Rumors are not verified facts. The actual scale of what Germany was up to was not known until camps were actually entered by Allied forces.
there were rumors of the camps at a pretty early point in the war, I dont think anyone believed the rumors as can well be imagined at that time in world history.
Hitler would have been our business the instant they landed in Great Britain, sport. You assume everyone knew about the camps a priori. That’s not the accurate history.
If you want to discuss genocide and the responsibilities of free nations, that’s an entirely different discussion. You’ll probably fare no better.
weak weak weak
You better step it up. None of that merits substantive response.
So youre saying that even if Hitler was only mutilating the jews that lived in Germany that it would have been nobodys business?
I didnt say we entered WW II because of Hitler.
I honored their service by serving.
Chris:
we did not go to war to save jews. FDR did not care if Jews were persecuted as evidenced by his refusal to let a boat load of them land in America in June of 1939. See MS St. Louis.