United States Iraq veteran’s suicide note

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This video is about the suicide note by United States Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers.

By Eric London in the USA:

“Too trapped in a war to be at peace”—the suicide of Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers

13 November 2013

On Tuesday, the New York Times published the suicide note of Daniel Somers, a 30-year-old war veteran from Phoenix, Arizona who shot himself in the head on June 10, four years after the end of his second deployment in Iraq. The young man is a casualty of an American war machine that has claimed the lives of over one million people in the last decade alone. Somers’ note is a chilling indictment of the Bush and Obama administrations, which have waged a series of wars of aggression, devastating the lives of thousands of soldiers, having ordered them to commit unconscionable war crimes.

“The simple truth is this,” the…

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