Broken by the War (UK vet suicide)

[Minstrel Boy]

Broken by the War

Aug 13
The Mirror

AN IRAQ veteran who returned from the desert a broken man has killed himself. Private Peter Mahoney went to war believing Saddam Hussein was threatening world peace with weapons of mass destruction. But the loving father-of-four came home disillusioned and convinced he was the victim of a political smokescreen.

Peter, 45, told his family how his unit came up against Iraqi troops armed only with sticks and stones.

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He left four children, Matthew, 19, Ashley, 17, Ben, nine, and Vicky, six. Donna, 41, said last night: "Iraq changed him. I don't know what happened because I wasn't in his head but it changed him. He was a broken man. I really don't know what happened out there."

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Last July he wrote in his local newspaper: "The general consensus among the troops was that we were in Iraq so George Bush could seize control of the oil fields. All this talk of weapons of mass destruction was simply a smokescreen as far as we were concerned. There was certainly no evidence they existed. From what we saw Saddam's regime did not have advanced weapons. Iraqi troops were using ancient Russian machines. They were firing sticks and stones. They might as well have had catapults."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14526700&method=full&siteid=50143&headline=broken-by-the-war-name_page.html

[pinniped]

1. Another lost soul that will haunt the chimp POS.

And yet more proof that the squatter in the wh is the most hated subhuman scum on the planet.

[LittleApple81]

2. Testimony from the grave. Too bad they did not help this guy on time. n/t