Reply #17: Actually no it's not silly at all [View All]

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http://askville.amazon.com/official-death-count-soldiers-Iraq-died-result-happened/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=1081265&search=soldiers%2Bwho%2Bdon%27t%2Bdie%2Bin%2Biraq%2Bnot%2Bcounted

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1669.htm

Casualties whose next-of-kin are not notified or cannot be contacted/located do not therefore appear to be counted in the official tally.

Additionally, an April 27, 2004, story titled "The Lasting Wounds Of War: Roadside Bombs Have Devastated Troops and Doctors Who Treat Them" by Karl Vick and published in the Washington Post, page 1, mentioned instances where US casualties, having suffered extensive brain-damage and with no prospect of regaining consciousness, are sent home for families to decide whether or not to terminate life support . . . It is not immediately apparent the extent to which these casualties are accounted for in the official DoD casualties count.
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/10/us-death-toll-in-iraq-higher-than-you.html

It is incomprehensible that the Democratic leadership, after 30 months of war and occupation in Iraq, has not challenged the Bush administration’s deliberate low-balling of U.S. casualties in Iraq (not to mention refusing even to estimate the Iraqi civilian losses).

The Department of Defense counts as official casualties the fatality toll, but only those injuries incurred in combat operations. This criteria leaves out thousands of serious injuries, thousands of cases of disease (such as sandfly disease) and tens of thousands of disabling post-traumatic-stress disorders.

As demonstrated by a “60 Minutes” program on CBS last December, permanently and seriously disabled soldiers were very upset that they weren’t even counted. Messrs. Bush and Rumsfeld should know how this definitional omission, clearly designed to diminish public indignation and polls against this illegal, costly, destructive, false-pretense military invasion and occupation, disrespects those military families.

Three soldiers in a Humvee were traveling toward their mission, tipped over and slid into the Euphrates River. Why wasn’t the soldier, now a quadriplegic, counted by Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld in the official toll?

The actual injury numbers are almost three times the official count. Then there are the soldiers with diseases and serious mental damage.

http://thehill.com/letters/victims-families-speak-for-themselves-on-death-penalty-2005-11-10.html