John Kerry urges move to prevent military suicides

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An unbelievable number and a horrible thing.

For over a decade our military personnel have had to have their own families provide what the military/congress should of provided... and talking about firearms is sidestepping the real problem.. Time for our elected officials with financial winnings from these decades long war to pay back our service members with real support... No more of this demoralizing bullshit-let's talk about gun safety...

psychological testing of troops before they were sent overseas.

The corporate media was so "Rah Rah" Bush and war that they completely ignored the criminal negligence of Bush's WH and DoD.

Expect corpmedia to ignore this issue and refuse to admit their role in it.

signed off on-I think he should of been calling out the legality of this war back in 2002.

Kerry used that phrase thousands of times in 2003 and 2004. He also used it in his "Do not rush to war" speech at Georgetown University, where I assume the vast majority of the students knew that it meant it would not be a just or moral war. (You might remember the first debate where Kerry answered a question on going to war with a "global test" , which was an attempt to secularize the St Augustinian definition of a just war. (At a speech in 2006 at Pepperdine University, when speaking of how his religion informed his political values he was clear that the similarity was not a coincidence.)

Moral or just goes beyond "legal". Not to mention, when they voted one promise was that Bush would go to the UN - which he did. He, Blair and the Spanish leader then opted to NOT return to the UN for a further declaration. At that point, Kerry was among the few who spoke out - as he said he would if Bush deviated from his promises. The simple fact is that Congress really can not prevent a President from going to war and once war is entered, will not second guess the President.

They are the only ones who have an issue with this letter and what it asks for. Everybody else understands it is a measure that could help, not a solution in itself.

If the point had been to say it is also important to work on the why, I would agree with the poster, but clearly, it is not the goal here.

long shot....

Certainly not Kerry nor the other people signing the letter.

vets in my community... I bring them food...They are tired of being treated like inmates... They want jobs, they want food, and they want health care... They need more than this talking. It is a band aid measure... If this country wants to preserve the health of our service members-end their homelessness, their hunger, and find them jobs....

fight for this (I do not have the list of people who signed, so there may be some who do not). This is ONE thing. There are others.

when the intel coming out of Iraq via the weapon inspections was proving that force was not needed.

Please don't rewrite history to comport with the corpmedia's preferred narrative.

need more than a bill tied to NDAA... That's all I'm saying...

It's one of those seeming exceptions to the personal responsibility culture we seem to have.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/12/kerrys_effort_to_prevent_milit.html

Sen. John Kerry's effort to prevent military suicides hailed by Lucey family of Belchertown

Interesting view from a family who has lived through this terrible ordeal.