After almost 10 months of solitary confinement, you'd be suicidal, too.

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Bradley Manning has been held since May 26, 2010, nearly the entire time in solitary confinement. Solitary confinement and isolation are a form of punishment that will break the psyche and morale of anyone. It is psychosis-inducing and will lead one to want to kill themselves.

There is a reason he may be suicidal. The Department of Defense did it to him. They are breaking him down to a shell of a person. How you define it or label it is largely irrelevant. It is wrong and unjustified to subject a person to this type of punishment, especially without a trial or a conviction.