Bad day at work: 16 US troops suicided in Iraq

POSTED BY: piratenews
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 20:13
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PIRATENEWS

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:51 AM

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Iraqi security sources have revealed that 21 US troops had committed suicide inside a former Iraqi air force base 27 days ago, Fars News Agency reported on Monday.

According to the sources, the 21 troops were treated in a hospital but only five soldiers have survived and they are in a critical condition. Security officials said they used potent narcotics to kill themselves.

The troops' motivations for suicide are not known but according to Iraqi sources the servicemen belonged to a unit of the US Airborne Division that was behind the massacre of several Iraqi families-- mostly women and children-- in northern Baghdad, said Ali al-Baghdadi an Iraqi security official.

The suicides took place in the soldiers' dormitory after the dinner time.
"The bodies of the US troops became misshapen such a way that they looked like 5000-year mummies," said a witness.

According to Iraqi officials' estimates, some 600 US troops, including senior officers, have committed suicide in Iraq since the invasion of the country in 2003. Half of the suicide attempts have been successful.

www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68821§ionid=351020201

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=iraq+bodies

Joseph Dwyer before his suicide
www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/09/10225/

1,000 US soldiers attempt suicide every month
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/21/iraq-soldiers-mother-talk_n_114072.h
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Let's send all the politicians and neocons and their kids to live in Iraq.

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HERO

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:30 PM

Fars News Agency (FNA) is an Iranian news agency. It was officially launched in Tehran in February 2002 to "promote the principles of the Islamic Revolution and safeguard national interests".

You might want to change the headline of this topic to: "Iranians lie again."

H

ANTHONYT

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:15 PM

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Originally posted by Hero:
Fars News Agency (FNA) is an Iranian news agency. It was officially launched in Tehran in February 2002 to "promote the principles of the Islamic Revolution and safeguard national interests".

You might want to change the headline of this topic to: "Iranians lie again."

H

Hello,

For my own part, I'm impressed that Piratenews was able to tailor his imagery to his argument. Usually he posts images of happy psychopathic troops grinning over the corpses of their enemies.

But he went a different way here, showing troops who were sad to see wounded innocents.

It shows growth, and it's a positive thing.

Good on ya, Piratenews.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:13 PM

It's not beyond the pale to see such things happen, although I'd like an admission (which I doubt we'd get, even if the incident is as-reported) from the army confirming it.

War is hard on people, especially folks who've been stop-lossed so many times they've damn near forgotten there's anything else.

You do know, we're gonna lose a LOT of em when they come back and fail to make the adjustment, we always do.

That's why smart people avoid having a war unless there is no alternative.

-Frem

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