Post date: Jun 09, 2012 7:55:0 PM
If you want more evidence of the insanity of these fascist wars Obama and Harper like to keep going check this.
Suicides are surging among active American troops currently averaging about one a day.
According to the MailOnline.
Shocking figures show one U.S. soldier commits suicide EVERY DAY
PUBLISHED: 01:44 GMT, 8 June 2012 | UPDATED: 02:35 GMT, 8 June 2012
Suicides are surging among America's troops, averaging nearly one a day this year - the fastest pace in the nation's decade of war.
The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan - about 50 per cent more - according to Pentagon statistics obtained by The Associated Press.
The numbers reflect a military burdened with wartime demands from Iraq and Afghanistan that have taken a greater toll than foreseen a decade ago. The military also is struggling with increased sexual assaults, alcohol abuse, domestic violence and other misbehavior.
Because suicides had leveled off in 2010 and 2011, this year's upswing has caught some officials by surprise.
The reasons for the increase are not fully understood. Among explanations, studies have pointed to combat exposure, post-traumatic stress, misuse of prescription medications and personal financial problems.
Army data suggest soldiers with multiple combat tours are at greater risk of committing suicide, although a substantial proportion of Army suicides are committed by soldiers who never deployed.
Suicide totals have exceeded U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan in earlier periods, including for the full years 2008 and 2009.
Also on the Afghanistan front, the French belatedly have come to a little bit of their senses and are pulling out of Afghanistan but not before paying a horrific cost.
France to begin Afghan pullout next month
TULLE, France — President Francois Hollande said Saturday France will begin its Afghanistan pullout next month and complete it by year-end, after four French troops were killed in a Taliban attack.
Hollande said France would pay a "national homage" to the men killed in a suicide bombing and that five wounded soldiers would be repatriated rapidly.
Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will head to Afghanistan Sunday.
Hollande said the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan, one of his presidential campaign pledges, "will begin in the month of July, will be carried out and be completed at the end of 2012."
"In the meantime, everything must be done for our troops to meet their obligations but with the highest level of security and with the greatest vigilance for the lives of the soldiers.
"I am making this engagement here and I will be the guarantor for this operation," Hollande said in the central town of Tulle, where he was to attend a commemoration of the massacre of civilians by the Nazis on June 9, 1944.
He added that the attack "does not change anything, it neither accelerates nor delays" withdrawal plans.
While some have called for the pullout to be sped up, "it is not possible to go faster," he said.
The four killed on Saturday were the first French soldiers to be lost in Afghanistan since January 20, when an Afghan soldier shot dead four unarmed soldiers and wounded 15 others.
Canada meanwhile persists in its participation in the Afghanistan insanity, a war which is largely about drug dealing and the techniques of corruption. Canadian troops are still over there but they are in a "training" capacity.
You could not get much more hypocritical than that.
Afghanistan is notoriously corrupt, so is Canada - what is the Canadian army training anybody for but corruption.
Those troops - if they had integrity - would be over here cleaning up the local corruption. They should be over here rounding up the Canadian taliban, the RCMP, and arresting them for sexual molestation, murder, mass murder, terrorizing the population, abusing the population and also arresting Harper and his entire Conservative gang for contempt of Parliament, that is to say conempt of all things free and free from corruption.
They could start with the current bosshog Bob Paulson and have him charged with crimes against humanity for allowing the Canadian gestapo to continue under his watch.
He is is a disgrace to those soldiers who fought in what they told us were world wars for the cause of freedom. The RCMP are flagrant nazis and there is nothing you can do about them.
Also in the Maritimes you have a flargrant RICO gang, the Irving mafia, so obviously out of control and destroying the local economy.
Yet Canadian soldiers are over in Afghanistan supposedly to liberate those people from the Taliban.
Hypocrisy.