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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-13-08 01:20 PM
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4118 dead. over 85 thousand wounded. Enough?
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Not for bloody bush. it's never enough.

"US military occupation forces in Iraq suffered at least 38 combat
casualties from July 2 to July 8, as the official casualty total
reached at least 65,889. The total includes 33,664 dead and
wounded by what the Pentagon classifies as "hostile" causes and
many more than the 32,187 last reported March 1 dead and
injured from "non-hostile" causes.*

The actual total is over 85,000 because the Pentagon chooses not to count
as "Iraq casualties" the approximately 20,000 casualties discovered only
after they returned from Iraq -mainly brain trauma from explosions.**

US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by routinely reporting only the total killed (4,117 as of July 8) and rarely mentioning the 30,349 wounded in combat. To further minimize public perception of the cost, they cover for the Pentagon by ignoring the 31,325 (as of March 1)*** military victims of accidents and illness serious enough to require medical air evacuation, although the 4,117 reported deaths include 764 (up one) who died from those same causes, including 145 suicides as of March 1.

http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/troops-injured-outside-combat-ignored.html
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