War Woe: Suicide kills more US soldiers than combat

The U.S. troop withdrawal leaves behind a country embittered by an occupation that's cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. And as U.S. soldiers return home for Christmas, the mood is far from joyful among veterans struggling to deal with the personal aftermath of the war. With soaring suicide rates, it's still too early to estimate the true cost of the invasion. Our correspondent Liz Wall reports.

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[Palmakoy]

@polydynamix

"illiterate sand dwellers" let me explain something to you,those brave iraqis fought an opposing force far superior to them in arms and cameout standing. while you americans were shitting you're pants in the safe comforts of your over indulgent homes, these iraqis would have to worry every minute of there lives from being blown up,shot,imprisoned or raped by the worlds second scumiest army (first being the jews)

so get you're head out of you're ass

[Darkonia]

Reasonable men exist within our armed forces, reasonable men survive the horrors of war and return home. The worrying thing is that some of these suicide cases are reasonable people, so what exactly is going on today thats breaking all these men? Only in a just war against a real ENEMY can gore and violence be reasoned as something that has to happen. and thats the problem, our boys know THIS IS NOT A JUST WAR, you cant reason with it so you cant cope with the shame, so you just kill yourself.

[Sean Rowe]

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[AJSwisgirl]

Agreed!

[shumunuhumnuh budubuduh]

Who gives a shit. Survival of the fittest. Let the weak kill themselves.

[Bela Tornac]

I like your comment Erika!:)

[Erika Kügel]

A bunch of faggots! Die with honour!

[Gina C]

We never wanted this fake war! We knew bush was lying from the start! Send them home now!

[thormx238]

You're a piece of fucking shit you stupid fucking smelly sand nigger, we should just nuke the shit hole of a country i hate every single one of you mother fuckers kill you all one by one and laugh and piss on your dead bodies

[Frederick Barbarossa]

THE NEXT GOAL: EXTERMINATE ALL THE HUMANS WITH NUCLEAR BOMBS!

THE HUMAN INDIFERENCE CAN BE HEALED BY DESTROYING THE EARTH!

SELFDESTRUCTION!!!!!!!!!!!