Seems the CBS story is still popular among the anti-war types who are getting desperate due to the success of the surge even though the figures are highly questionable. More from the above story.

Another problem shows up when you look at the repeated studies of the 700,000 or so vets of first Gulf War - which have found no increased suicide rate. The same is true of a massive 2004 study of Vietnam vets.

That is, a solid body of work shows no "extra" suicides among vets of the only previous two major U.S. wars of the last half-century - yet CBS claims a massive increase among vets generally. For the networks' numbers to hold up, there'd have to be a vast jump in suicides among vets who never saw combat.

Everyone should take a cautionary note that the source debunking CBS study is the military which definitely has a vested interest in presenting a differing view.

Any third party, non-CBS, non-military, information out there?