The Associated Press

At One time there were two wire services and they competed with each other UPI and the AP. Haven't seen articles by UPI for quite some time. Over time, however have seen the bent of AP articles become more and more predominately liberal, much the same as the network news. The latest article by the AP has such an anti-military slant could not keep quiet any longer.
soldiers in the Fort Carson's 4th brigade of the 4th infantry divsion have been involved in five killings in the last two years. Nowhere in the article does it bother to mention that as the Army found it more and more difficult to recruit while war was going on, started letting ex gang members in the military. This unfortunatley has led to Bloods, Crips and other notorious gangs reforming in the military and their graffiti tags can be found on concrete barriers in Iraq. Some servicemembers have been killed during initiation ceremonies in Germany, off base. We have not had a homicide rate among veterans as high as the general population in the past, however perhaps that is changing. Nowhere in the article is any mention of gangs at all. There have been 121 homicides by veterans in the last four years out of a force of 1.1 million. To put that in perspective, among the population at large, nationally 6 people out of every 100,000 are killed each year, since most are not serial killers, that means out of population of 1.1 million approximately 60 murderers per year or 240 in a four year period. So while the rate is lower, when a unit of 3700 soldiers has five killings in a two year period that is cause for alarm in that unit.
The whole tone of the article is that the average veteran is somehow dangerous to those in the city he lives, this is simply not true. This hyperbole concerning veterans got so bad that an internal memo in the Homeland Security Dept, listed possible terrorists as those who own guns, veterans and prolifers. So I guess as a prolife, veteran who owns a gun, I would be a triple threat. That is plain ludicrous, but it represents the liberal worldview. Post traumatic stress is not good and can be very stressful indeed, but to extrapolate that the 4th Brigade Combat team of the 4th Infantry is somehow an average unit with a homicide rate of 75 homicides per 100,000 people, that is four times as high as the Texas homicide rate of 18, and over twelve times as high as the national rate is scurrilous.