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This article comes from an Australian newspaper. Keep that point in mind.

Veterans' suicide toll dwarfs deaths

At least 6256 US veterans took their own lives in 2005, at an average of 17 a day, according to figures broadcast last night. Former servicemen are more than twice as likely than the rest of the population to commit suicide.

Such statistics compare to the total 3863 US military deaths in Iraq since the invasion in 2003 -- an average of 2.4 a day, according to the website icasualties.org.

A separate study published last week shows that US military veterans make up a quarter of homeless people in the US, even though they represent just 11 per cent of the adult population.

Younger soldiers are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens after completing tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This should make any reasonable person reject the notion of a war undertaken in a pre-emptive or elective way. In fact it should make any reasonable person reject the notion of war. The key word is reasonable.

It would also appear that Bush's conservative compassion is once again missing in action. Why are these young men and women homeless and out on the streets? Why are they not getting the assistance that they need? We presume that particular assistance would cut too deeply into the very deep pockets of our compassionate war profiteers.

More undeniable proof that sanity, the rule of law, and democracy are prevailing in Iraq (please excuse the fed up sarcasm).

Bodies found in Iraq mass killing

The badly decomposed remains of about 30 people have been discovered by Iraqi police on the outskirts of a mainly Sunni district in southern Baghdad.

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