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The CBS report on suicides among Iraq war vets is bogus
Manchester Union Leader ^ | November 27, 2007 | Michael Fumento

Posted on 11/27/2007 3:47:51 AM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 11/27/2007 3:47:54 AM PST by billorites
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The ghost of Dan Rather still haunts their halls.


2 posted on 11/27/2007 3:50:36 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: billorites

More “fake but accurate” reporting from the Bush-haters at CBS.

No surprises there.


3 posted on 11/27/2007 3:50:46 AM PST by Westbrook
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Stars and Tripe reported the same story.


4 posted on 11/27/2007 3:51:48 AM PST by napscoordinator
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For the best in BS see - SeeBS


5 posted on 11/27/2007 3:53:21 AM PST by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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“suicide rate of these young vets was 22.9 to 31.9 per 100,000 people.”

Uhmmm.... Lessee... That’s .0229% to .0319%.


6 posted on 11/27/2007 3:54:54 AM PST by Brilliant
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Well if the media didn’t hesitate to make up a story about a disproportionate number of Vets being homeless, it only makes sense that they would make up other stories that cast the military in a bad light.
7 posted on 11/27/2007 3:57:28 AM PST by NavVet (O)
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To: billorites

Anything to discredit Bush or make America look bad is NEWS! If CBS manufactures it that’s OK.


8 posted on 11/27/2007 4:01:40 AM PST by SWEETSUNNYSOUTH (Help stamp out liberalism!)
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The truth doesn’t matter to the media. Their left wing agenda is all that matters.


9 posted on 11/27/2007 4:04:20 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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Lara Logan BS?


10 posted on 11/27/2007 4:06:03 AM PST by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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This gives them a way to explain the lack of homeless vets, see it all works out...


11 posted on 11/27/2007 4:21:33 AM PST by Camel Joe (liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
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The ghost of Dan Rather still haunts their halls.

cBS just tossed him and Mapes some 'freelance' work...

12 posted on 11/27/2007 4:29:07 AM PST by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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CBS = Commonly Bogus Stories


13 posted on 11/27/2007 4:33:02 AM PST by libertylover (Liberals: Trying to convert the U.S. into a country the Founding Father's wouldn't recognize.)
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BTTT


14 posted on 11/27/2007 4:38:32 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: billorites

Why does anyone watch or listen to the Communist Broadcasting System? It’s lies are common knowledge.


15 posted on 11/27/2007 4:43:31 AM PST by RoadTest ("The Lord bringeth the council of the heathen to naught" - Psalm 33, verse 10)
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Paul Harvey’s morning clip last week quoted that figure... not surprised.


16 posted on 11/27/2007 4:56:36 AM PST by TheBattman (Duncan Hunter '08)
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I only know of one soldier who has committed suicide, and I only know of him because he was my brothers friend.

Decided to hang himself rather than go back on a 4th tour of Iraq.


17 posted on 11/27/2007 4:59:20 AM PST by SoldierMedic (Rowan Walter, 23 Feb 2007 Ramadi)
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Now ..this is interesting...I would think the advertisers that bought time from CBS on these shows...might have a fraud claim against CBS......any legal eagles out there with thoughts?!!


18 posted on 11/27/2007 5:02:28 AM PST by mo
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I wonder why he killed himself? If he was afraid of dying in Iraq then what’s the point in doing as he did, after all dead is dead.

I suppose clear thinking isn’t a strong suit of someone inclined to taking their own lives.

19 posted on 11/27/2007 5:31:00 AM PST by aroundabout
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It wouldn’t surpise me much to find higher suicide rates among vets who had served in the WOT than among troops currently on active duty, if they came back from the action and had to live with what SeeBS et al have done to the truth, this country, and the betrayal of the cause they fought for.


20 posted on 11/27/2007 5:59:18 AM PST by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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