November 14, 2007 (LPAC)--CBS reports an "epidemic" of suicides of especially young veterans. In a report, which has shocked Veteran's groups, CBS News says: "Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the War on Terror. They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age. (The suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000, while the rate for veterans was found to be between 22.9 and 31.9 per 100,000.) In 2005, ... in 45 states, there were at least 6,256 suicides among those who served in the armed forces. That's 120 each and every week, in just one year."

CBS compiled their own report by going to each of the fifty states to find out about veteran suicides since the Army, which only had active duty soldiers, would not tell them. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) who is a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee, told CBS, "If you're just looking at the overall number of veterans themselves who've committed suicide, we have not been able to get the numbers." Commenting on the figures Paul Sullivan, a former VA analyst who is now an advocate for veterans rights from the group Veterans For Common Sense, said "Wow! Those are devastating."

What CBS failed to mention, is that the policy of Revolution Military Affairs, pushed by the Fascists Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz, are a major part of the causes of this “epidemic”. As LaRouche has emphasized, this was the direction that President Eisenhower warned in his farewell address, uttering the policy as: “A Military Industrial Complex.”