Obama Statement on Army Suicide Report

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Obama Statement on Army Suicide Report

By http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/person/gGxtkQ">Sam Graham-Felsen - May 29th, 2008 at 3:55 pm EDT

Barack Obama on the http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i6GBOG0InqxDzX_TMyxFBWQ1hhQQD90VG99G0">Army report that suicide rates among veterans is on the rise...

Today’s news is a tragic reminder of the staggering and ongoing costs of the Iraq war, particularly on our troops and their families. We are more than five years into this war, and the Pentagon and VA are still unprepared to treat the unseen wounds of battle. We know that incidence of psychological injury increase with each additional tour of duty in Iraq, and that our troops are not getting the support they need. Too many are falling through the cracks because they need help but feel they can’t get it. When I am President, we’ll hire more mental health professionals, increase training to recognize the signs and to reject the stigma of seeking care, and enhance mental health screening and treatment from enlistment, to deployment, to reentry into civilian life. It’s time to serve our troops as well as they have served us.

For more on Obama's support for our veterans, visit http://veterans.barackobama.com/">Veterans.BarackObama.com.

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[NotThisTime]

1. How's that surge coming along McSame?

Taken from that report:

More U.S. troops also died overall in hostilities in 2007 than in any of the previous years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Overall violence increased in Afghanistan with a Taliban resurgence and overall deaths increased in Iraq, even as violence there declined in the second half of the year.

for the 115 deaths reported, that does not include ACTIVE soldiers, only those not active.... if they were to post those that were active, I'm quite certain there would be many more, and each and every one of them was preventable, and we should take this as a reminder about what this election is about.

[rurallib]

2. McSame WIL NOT surrender!!!

He is willing to fight to the last drop of your blood.

[Hope And Change]

3. ..

[JPZenger]

4. NPR: High Suicide Rate is still continuing through mid-2008

[Vattel]

5. thanks for the useful info n/t