Posted on 01/15/2008 1:23:25 PM PST by mattstat
I’m a veteran and haven’t killed anybody in years. But if you read the New York Times you’d be right to worry that I might.
The Sunday, 13 January 2008, edition of the Times spent four pages! detailing that, in the four and three-quarter years since the Iraq war began, returning soldiers, sailors, and airmen came home horribly scared—mentally, of course—and committed 121 murders. Which is a big number, no question; and probably some, or even most, of the people killed didn’t even have it coming to them.
Military writer Ralph Peters, in today’s column for the New York Post, shows that about 350,000 soldiers have come back from both the Iraqi and Afghanistani wars. That makes the per-year murder rate equal to about 7.3 per 100,000.
Time to seriously fret about the mental health of soldiers? Perhaps we should lock them down for a cooling off period until they loose their aggressiveness.
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I would have never have guessed that rates were that high. The rates in small cities is not nearly that high, so all those gun-controlled safe cities must make up for it with really high rates.
Not a bad idea to send an email to the Public Editor of the NY Times, whose address is given in the linked story, asking him to investigate this egregious slander of our troops and correct it if Peters’ facts are accurate.
Ping!
Ralph Peters is on the Medved show now discussing this story. He also just endorsed John Sidney McCain.
And this was just part one in a nine part series the NYT has planned. Nine weeks they will spend trying to convince America that veterans are monsters, not heros.
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