The growing problem of military and veterans suicides in the U.S. is the result of “immoral wars and occupations,” according to Ross Caputi, the founding director of the Justice for Fallujah Project in New York. Earlier this month, Pentagon officials announced that 154 service members took their own lives in the first 155 days of 2012, a sharp increase from the same period a year before.
“Veterans would not want to kill themselves if they were building schools and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, but that’s not what we’re doing,” Caputi told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Sunday.
“We’re hurting innocent people and veterans can’t live with the guilt, and that’s the whole root of this problem.”
U.S. military and veteran leaders have acknowledged that the stress and pace of wartime operations have played a major role in a rise in suicide among military personnel.
Panetta called military suicides “the most frustrating challenge that I have come across since becoming secretary of defense” and said leaders will redouble efforts to stop that rising trend.
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Poster Comment:
Henkley When they were alive, they were living stupid lives. They were willing to serve Obobo and Obobo's motherland[_] Israel. In the end, these stupid cowards, instead of standing up and fighting back for their country[_] America[_] which has been under attacks and control by zionists and Israel-firsters, these stupid cowards took their own lives and brought to their graves all the dirty deeds they had inflicted upon the innocent Iraqis, Afghanis, or Pakistanians. They should have spoken out and exposed all the crimes they had done on behalf of Obobo and Israel. They should have stood up and fought back for their country[_] America.
Tatarewicz: Harsh and almost unwarranted criticism since Jew-controlled media made it next to impossible for them to know that America's national leaders got them to fight Israel's enemies for the sole reason of getting Jew "money," media and organizational support at election time. A situation which has precluded intelligent management of US economy so that politicians could concentrate on domestic matters, particularly job creation for Americans at home and abroad.