2, June 2008 Americans
die, VA lies
In an effort to shield the Bush administration from
its ongoing deception and minimize the ire of the American people, Dr. Ira
Katz, head of mental health services for the Department of Veterans Affairs,
knowingly, understated the number of suicides of returning US veterans. In
2007, Katz testified before the House of Representatives Veterans’ Affairs
Committee that the number of suicides for all of 2007 was 790. Unfortunately,
an incriminating email from Katz to a colleague has since surfaced, “Our suicide
prevention coordinators are identifying about 1,000 suicide attempts per month
among the veterans we see in our medical facilities. Is this something we
should (carefully) address ourselves in some sort of release before somebody
stumbles on it?” CBS research showed that more than 6,250 Americans servicemen
took their own lives in 2005 and according to Pentagon records 2006 proved to
be the highest rate of suicides in 26 years. This is yet another sad episode
which demonstrates the utter lack of compassion towards US war veterans
fighting internal demons heaped upon them by our government.
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