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Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18737.htm

Pentagon Cover Up:

15,000 or more US casualties in Iraq War

By Mike Whitney

11/17/07 "ICH" -- -- The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it.

CBS’s Investigative Unit wanted to do a report on the number of suicides in the military and “submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense”. After 4 months they received a document which showed--that between 1995 and 2007--there were 2,200 suicides among “active duty” soldiers.

Baloney.

The Pentagon was covering up the real magnitude of the “suicide epidemic”. Following an exhaustive investigation of veterans’ suicide data collected from 45 states; CBS discovered that in 2005 alone “THERE WERE AT LEAST 6,256 AMONG THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES. THAT’S 120 EACH AND EVERY WEEK IN JUST ONE YEAR.”

That is not a typo. Active and retired military personnel, mostly young veterans between the ages of 20 to 24, are returning from combat and killing themselves in record numbers. We can assume that "multiple-tours of duty" in a war-zone have precipitated a mental health crisis of which the public is entirely unaware and which the Pentagon is in total denial.

If we add the 6,256 suicide victims from 2005 to the “official” 3,865 reported combat casualties; we get a sum of 10,121. Even a low-ball estimate of similar 2004 and 2006 suicide figures, would mean that the total number of US casualties from the Iraq war now exceed 15,000.

That’s right; 15,000 dead US servicemen and women in a war that--as yet--has no legal or moral justification.

CBS interviewed Dr. Ira Katz, the head of mental health at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Katz attempted to minimize the surge in veteran suicides saying, “There is no epidemic of suicide in the VA, but suicide is a major problem.”

Maybe Katz right. Maybe there is no epidemic. Maybe it’s perfectly normal for young men and women to return from combat, sink into inconsolable depression, and kill themselves at greater rates than they were dying on the battlefield. Maybe it’s normal for the Pentagon to abandon them as soon as soon they return from their mission so they can blow their brains out or hang themselves with a garden hose in their basement. Maybe it's normal for politicians to keep funding wholesale slaughter while they brush aside the casualties they have produced by their callousness and lack of courage. Maybe it is normal for the president to persist with the same, bland lies that perpetuate the occupation and continue to kill scores of young soldiers who put themselves in harm’s-way for their country.

It’s not normal; it’s is a pandemic---an outbreak of despair which is the natural corollary of living in constant fear; of seeing one’s friends being dismembered by roadside bombs or children being blasted to bits at military checkpoints or finding battered bodies dumped on the side of a riverbed like a bag of garbage.

The rash of suicides is the logical upshot of Bush’s war. Returning soldiers are traumatized by their experience and now they are killing themselves in droves. Maybe we should have thought about that before we invaded.

Check it out the video at: CBS News “Suicide Epidemic among Veterans” http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/cbsnews_investigates/main3496471.shtml

Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile

On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line. Seriously.

The trio -- members of the Luck, Wisconsin group Nukewatch -- said the break-in was part of "a call for national repentance" for the Hiroshima and Nagaski A-bombings in 1945.

The activists used bolt-cutters to get into the E-9 Minuteman III facility, located just northwest of the White Shield, North Dakota. "Using a sledgehammer and household hammers, they disabled the lock on the personnel entry hatch that provides access to the warhead and they hammered on the silo lid that covers the 300 kiloton nuclear warhead," the group said in a statement. "The activists painted 'It's a sin to build a nuclear weapon' on the face of the 110-ton hardened silo cover and the peace activists poured their blood on the missile lid."

This was all done while wearing face paint, dunce caps, misfitting overalls, and bright yellow wigs.

We dress as clowns to show that humor and laughter are key elements in the struggle to transform the structures of destruction and death. Saint Paul said that we are “fools for God's sake,” and we say that we are “fools for God and humanity.” Clowns as court jesters were sometimes the only ones able to survive after speaking truth to authorities in power.

Guards responded within minutes. And when they arrived, the protesters "ate a lot of gravel," I'm told.

"The individuals were taken from the area and brought to the McLean County Jail," the AP notes. "The three are being charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, both Class A misdemeanors, and bond was set at $500 each.... The FBI is involved in the case and federal charges are pending."

Latest Comments

Hate to bust your bubble Jaye, but it's going to take a lot more than three people with sledgehammers to prevent that blast door from opening properly. They could have detonated a truck bomb on the thing and it wouldn't have prevented the door from clearing the silo for a launch.

Posted by: Jaye Debunked at June 30, 2006 08:35 PM

So, normal, nonmilitary people break into a secure USAF nuclear site and damage some equipment. Now really who are the real clowns? Sleep tight America, your USAF Security and Intel people are sleeping too, but on the job! Thank God they did not watch this movie http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/films/6114
"Twilight's Last Gleaming" cause we would all be glowing!

Posted by: Jaye at June 30, 2006 05:27 PM

"As for 9/11, that was simply a response to US actions. Bin Laden was funded, armed and trained by the US to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. We left that country a smoking ruin, completely without aid or assistance after 10 years of a war that we sponsored. When we repeated the action in Iraq with sanctions, weekly bombings and so on for ten years while millions of Iraqis including an estimated 500,000 children died of disease, maluntrition and contamination from depleted uranium munitions, we gave Bin Laden (and many others as well) justification for their actions."

Just to correct the MASSIVE pant load..(I'd debunk more of it...but it's been a long day).

Let's see.. The sanctions where done by the U.N. Who figured out that Iraq needed food and medical supplies for it's people. So they allowed Saddam to sell some of his oil for food. Remember that scandle? He was bribing the snot out of quite a few people in order to 'get in good' with the UN..so they would lift the sanctions fully. Here's the neat part that was ommited- Saddam was skimming off the top MILLIONS of dollars intended for food/medical/etc... He built up several "residences" with such wonderful things as gold plated "Flush" handles on his toilets...He lived his life like King Dookey...while his people starved.

Why someone would blame the US for that? I honestly do not know? Saddam had the funding...he had the food and medical supplies... Prehaps someone should ask that walking pantload why he let his own people down? Because as he was stealing millions intended for the care of his people? He seemed to have more interest in having a golden flush knob on his crapper...

As for the rest? Such really interesting ideas and concepts? However not much truth to it...In fact I loved the part where you said the US government gave him the green light for the first war. It must be interesting living in such a fantasy land....

Posted by: Capt Scuttle at June 28, 2006 09:17 PM

"The wordl's superpower is? USA
The country with the most nuclear weapons? USA
With the most chemical weapons? USA
etc., etc.

Who poses the greatest threat to humanity?
DO THE MATH.

Go clowns go!"

I read the above and just about fell over from the total lack of education from this person. (or commen sense...)

Yes the U.S.A. is the worlds last remaining superpower at this stage of time "God Bless America" We are also the first ones that get called upon for any disaster that happens in the world. And we do so (and give millions and millions in relief efforts) Without a second thought.

Yes currently the U.S.A. has a good sized closet full of WMD's. GET OVER IT!! The last time we used one? Was back in WW2 for crying in the sink! Granted we could have turned large sections of the middle east into a walmart parking lot...but we choose to have more restrint, and currently do our best to avoid innocent's getting in the crossfire. Yes it does and will happen! But we've got 2,500 dead soldiers..and we could have had ZERO if we just nucked the area.

As for Chem Warfare? Give me a break.. While we search for the garbage that our enemys could use against us? We prepare shots...medical planning..vacinate soldiers.. All using research we've garnered from chem weapons. It's research! Not Weapons! There is not an ounce of chem weapon's in the US's bag of tricks...and there will never be. Research Research Research..and not using AirHead America or some commie that mananged to get in print.

I did the math..The current world threat? It's not from the US by a long shot..Unless you are a terrorist...then just stay put..we'll get to you in good time.

Currently the biggest threat is the Islamic Terror groups that have a pure lust for death and destruction. Canada just broke up a cell that had tons more material for a 'home made' bomb that would have made the Federal building in OK look like a fire cracker.

These looneys can be anywhere...living in YOUR community! And they can be ordered to set off bombs in a heartbeat.

So give it a rest with the "Gee look how bad the USA is..." When it's crunch time? Look at who comes to the rescue!

Good lord'n butter....what I would'ent give to have a mass meeting with teachers and tell 'em not to re-write history in their own demented fashion.

As Foamy the great would say?

I'm DONE

Posted by: Capt Scuttle at June 28, 2006 09:03 PM