from SLATE's news summary: >USA Today's lead says the military is looking into soldier suicides in Iraq, since, as one military psychiatrist said, the overall number of them "has caused the Army to be concerned." There have been at least 14 suicides among troops in Iraq in the past seven months. That's an annual rate of 17 suicides per 100,000 troops, about double the military's rate last year. Also, four hundred seventy eight soldiers have been sent home because of mental health issues. ...
[of course, some of the people running the Pentagon have "mental health issues."] >The [Wall Street JOURNAL] gets hold of the draft of an Army report concluding that 1) contrary to the administration's claims, Saddam did not have big plans to blow oil fields, dams, and bridges 2) among the biggest factors in the U.S.'s initial win was "Iraqi ineptitude;" most of Saddam's soldiers hadn't trained with live ammo in more than a year. "I worry that Pentagon is drawing cosmic lessons from the defeat of a truly inept enemy," said one analyst. "That is a big, big mistake."< ------------------------ Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
