the u.s. a really accomplish in the war in iraq and to help me analyze this i'm joined now by brian bakker national coordinator of the answer coalition welcome brian thank you so a decade of fighting in hopes of bringing democracy and freedom to the country has the us come even close to accomplishing this well i don't think those were the real objectives of the united states those are the slogans under which the bush administration carried out the invasion in march two thousand and three it was a prieto as an excuse can ever say well we're invading a country occupying a country bombing a country because we want to dominate the region dominated vast oil resources in the case of iraq the united states has been at war against iraq not simply since march two thousand and three when the us invaded but since august nine hundred ninety when the u.s. imposed economic sanctions on iraq and the identified regime change then and later as its primary goal during the period of the sink sions prior to the invasion in march two thousand and three according to the you wanted zone statistics a million peop

been taken away from the iraqi people brian thank you so much for weighing in on that that was brian bakker national coordinator of the answer coalition well the thousands of lives lost as perhaps the biggest cost of the war in iraq but it turns out the biggest enemy may not be and surgeons may not be terrorists but u.s. soldiers themselves suicide rates among u.s. soldiers and veterans today are soaring for the second year in a row more soldiers killed themselves that were killed on the battlefield ad many servicemen that become victims never even leave u.s. soil it's leading some to argue that there is. is something going on in the military experience that is driving soldiers to commit suicide many come back with severe depression post-traumatic stress disorder and face challenges assimilating back into civilian life i take a look at these suicide epidemic plague plaguing servicemen and women today and what may be behind it. being in this environment. it's killing us soldiers but surprisingly the biggest killers are not enemy combatants i am fortunately inhabits the demographic in the uni