Soldier who took overdose on eve of Iraq trip 'feared having to shoot children'

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Daily Mail

A young soldier was so traumatised by the prospect of his first Iraqi posting, he took an overdose which killed him.

Private Jason Chelsea couldn't come to terms with the thought that he might have to "shoot children" carrying suicide bombs.

He was so afraid, on the eve of the tour of duty with the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment he took a lethal quantity of paracetamol and iron tablets.

Unknown to Jason, they were a particularly destructive combination and he died from multi-organ failure following severe damage to his liver.



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Tragic: Private Jason Chelsea couldn't come to terms with the thought that he might have to 'shoot children' carrying suicide bombs in Iraq that he took an overdose

Sad!

[Sequoia]

1. Way to go Bush. Kill everyone.

What a sad tragic loss of life.

[Benhurst]

2. R.I.P.

Only the good die young.

[w8liftinglady]

3. I'm sure that the prospect(and reality) of having to kill boys his brothers' ages

is part of what drove my son into his self-destructive cycle.the first phone call I rec'd from Iraq(and the last time I heard my sweet boy come through)was when he told me "don't worry,mom-we aim low with the kids"...in 2003.He has become an emotionless robot since then.

[japple]

5. I am ashamed of what my country has done to the young

people who are involved in this war. W8liftinglady, I hope your son will recover.

[superkia]

6. We need to make our primary votes count so our country...

wont continue this deadly path. If everyone that speaks passionately about this disgusting war would look into the candidates pasts and voted with their conscience, we would be in a better place and so would other countries like Iraq and Iran. I am afraid most people aren't willing to look at the facts on all of the candidates and vote for the candidates that WILL end this war, not just talk about it to get votes. Hopefully I am wrong and the American public does the right thing for our children's futures.

[Heywood J]

4. Wow, only 19.

He wasn't that much older than the children he feared shooting. They're basically being asked to become the equivalent of a school shooter.

[gratuitous]

7. Doubly tragic

Because you know that someone without such scruples is headed over to Iraq.

[MagickMuffin]

8. I'm so sorry Jason, I wish you didn't have to feel so much despair

that the only way for you to deal with it was to take your own life. I can't imagine having to deal with this trauma.

Certainly you understood what was at stake. :cry:

RIP, soldier. :patriot:

[ohio2007]

9. looks like he'll get an "other then honorable" discharge to me...beats suicide

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