At least 17 U.S. troops have committed suicide in Iraq

[ranxer]

i missed it zhukov.

but i gotta say war terrorizes both sides of the conflicts..just like vietnam, and especially with a guerilla style war, a blending of civilian and military attackers is a horrific expierience..like a nuke it's another of those things i compare to an actual "hell on earth." The casualties our neighbors, friends, and families are suffering will be counted for many years after their return in illness and psycological damage.

Jessica lynch is a somewhat extreem example but she talks of the many many others that she was with in the mess.. i can't imagine it will be much easier for them to recover from the experience of that convoy attack.. the attack which happens on a smaller scale almost 18 times a day now. Jessica has been discharged so she is no longer counted in the wounded.. nor if for some reason dies from her war wounds or commits suicide will she be counted as a military death just as many hundreds from vietnam have not been counted or attributed to the vietnam war.