Facts on # of US wounded casualties from foreign press

[MissWaverly]

The report also reveals that caring for wounded military personnel is going to be a far bigger and more expensive job than previously thought. The study notes that the Veterans Benefits Administration had originally projected that 23,553 veterans returning from Iraq would seek medical care last year, but in June it revised this number to 103,000. It also is now responsible for providing care to an estimated 90,000 National Guard personnel, who previously were not eligible for its services. To meet these unforeseen demands, the administration appealed to Congress for an emergency $1.5 billion in funding for fiscal 2005. It is likely to face a shortfall of $2.6 billion in 2006.

This is from the asia times

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA14Ak01.html

[dchill]

1. It will take even MORE...

Tax Cuts to pay for this. "Unforeseen demands" my ass.

[MissWaverly]

2. whoever thought up a catered war charged on credit

it was the dimmest of ideas, but what do you hear on the sunday talk shows, the democrats
oh the democrats, the democrats either didn't speak up enough or couldn't keep their
mouths shut

[Christa]

3. Hmmmmm, I wonder why MSNBC or CNN do not report this?

:grr:

[MissWaverly]

4. I had no idea until I read this how high our casualty rate is

they repeat the number of deaths all the time but I had no idea that we have
close to 200,000 wounded and that does not include Afghanistan and the
numbers used are from last June.

[JeffR]

5. Because it's news

And they don't do news.

[MissWaverly]

6. Yes, I understand but congress should be alerting us

they should have the duty to let us know what is going on.

[JeffR]

10. Absolutely right

It is their duty!

[MissWaverly]

12. our congress reps get special mailing privileges

Mostly they use it for vote for me or send me money, there should be a report to us
on the state of the union and it should be more than 1 a year.

[dchill]

13. I don't think they spend any time...

even alerting themselves. Now they're spending all their time avoiding getting hit with Abramoff moneyballs.

[cantstandbush]

14. Surely they are not trying to hide this from us to support the Bushbots?

[MissWaverly]

21. they have been reticent to criticize this war

their response seems to be gee whiz, maybe we shouldn't have gone to war but now that
we are there, we have to stay the course

[tsuki]

20. Because they support the troops...NOT!

[leftofthedial]

7. the bush crime family will ensure that the VA remains underfunded

and that most of the returning vets will be untreated and the rest will have to scratch and claw for treatment for the rest of their lives.

[MissWaverly]

8. I don't think this will work, GIs are not going to give up benefits

I think the Republicans only think short term, they enjoy the idea that the democrats
will be left with the tab, while Rush and others will continue to demonize everything
the democrats do, they have overreached this time, the American people realize the
joke is on them.

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[MissWaverly]

11. It doesn't matter

These wounded soldiers are going to be at the Wal-Mart, the 7-11, your church, they'll be a heck of a lot closer to you than your congressman in DC. I think that we owe it to them
to have a d***m good reason why we asked them to make the sacrifice they did and
we owe it to them to have a strategy to fight the war effectively.

[JeffR]

16. Well spoken

We owe it to them to do whatever we can to bring them home, alive and unharmed.

[MissWaverly]

17. I read in Fooled Again

they had to make sure that the military did not vote for Kerry, in some places the only
way they could vote was to hand their vote over the counter, to be faxed by another person.

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[MissWaverly]

22. I have done that, it's a DU glitch

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[cantstandbush]

15. I bet our own military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan don't know these

numbers.

[MissWaverly]

23. I am positive that they don't, I am a news watcher and I didn't