Twelve years after the United States unleashed the first war in Iraq, veterans and their families suffer longlasting effects. An astounding 22 veterans kill themselves every day. Experts point to guilt feelings as well as post traumatic stress disorder as motives for the suicides. Other speak of the lies told by authorities to justify the invasion of Iraq. This week President Barack Obama acknowledged in an interview that the group known as the Islamic State grew out of the United States occupation of Iraq. Yet the U. S. Congress is now reviewing a proposal by President Barack Obama for a new war in Iraq and Syria. Alexandra Hall reports from Washington for teleSUr.
