Investigate the suicides

Wayne Smith, a Vietnam vet and former post traumatic stress disorder counselor, urges reporters to probe deeper into the story about soldier suicides in Iraq and expose "what may be the Pentagon's internal mantra on an issue so explosive it could seriously downgrade the American public's support for this war."

What the press sees now, Smith contends, are likely "tip-of-the-iceberg indicators that portend a post-Iraq psychiatric disaster for some returning soldiers, one that the country is ill-prepared to deal with and one that the Pentagon appears to be spinning like a top."