The unseen cost of the war in Iraq [Channel 4 UK]

[truthisfreedom]

why do we have to read this stuff reported only by foreign sources? why don't our reporters have the guts to investigate the truth?

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http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/02/week_2/10_iraq2.html
The unseen cost of the war in Iraq

US Politics
Published: 10-Feb-2004
By: Jonathan Miller


More than 11,000 medical evacuees have come through Andrews in the past nine months, the Air Force says.
Most, we suspect, from Iraq. But that's 8,000 more than the Pentagon says have been wounded there.

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Come November, President Bush, who never fought in South East Asia, may well be up against Senator John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam vet. Could that be why the dead and wounded return to Washington in the middle of the night with no fanfare?

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But when it comes to the wounded, an astonishing situation has arisen: the Pentagon's figures clash wildly with those of the US Army.
The Pentagon lists 2,604 wounded in action and just 408 "non-hostile wounded". But the Army says many thousands more have been medically evacuated from the conflict zone.

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If the US government was to admit to the true human cost of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the wounded as well as the dead, then how many Americans would support George Bush and his war?

[Francis]

1. The shock of this

Is that it is linked via the drudge report

[truthisfreedom]

3. surprisingly, yes...but not so surprisingly, it was moved from top billing

to middle of the page within minutes of arrival. he'll have it off the page by the end of the day, due to pressure from the administration. matt the drudge ( one who works hard at boring tasks) reports to the rethugs, and answers to the rethugs, and when they don't like something he's brought up that might make an effective talking point for the Demcratic Party, he slips it down below the radar pretty darned quick.

[On the Road]

2. Well, As Colin Powell Said

"We're not particularly interested" in the number of Iraqi casualites.

[Qanisqineq]

4. I'm not defending the Pentagon

but most of the medical evacuees are for psychological problems. And that doesn't count among "wounded".

[Mari333]

5. please send this to every news organization you can

every blog, everyone on your e group lists...
its the only way to get the word out...please..
I just sent it everywhere......
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

[renegade000]

6. 11,000 evacuees?

thats a sizable portion of our force over there. wow.

[Mari333]

7. kick for our kids in Iraq that the media ignores

:kick:

[dbt]

8. And another kick just on General Principles!

:kick:
dbt