Reply #3: This is powerful

[Ms. Clio]

more from the article, it's devastating:

Rieckhoff criticized the military for not releasing the entire number of those killed or injured in Iraq, a figure he said is far greater than the 1,416 listed as killed and 10,622 listed as wounded by the Defense Department.

"It takes guys like us to embarrass Rumsfeld before things get changed," he said. "The military is being run into the ground, and the American people are unaware of what's really going on."

The group showed a documentary in which former soldiers from Iraq -- many of them amputees -- were angry about how the government treated them once they returned, complaining they were met with a "nightmare of paperwork" to get medical and disability benefits.

"Once you've served your purpose," one young soldier told the camera, "you're no longer of use to the U.S. government."


I'm sure the freepers will just say they are un-American, though--the nerve of those amputees, demanding benefits.