More troops suffering severe head wounds (and eyes -grim)

[donsu]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4839405/

The soldiers were lifted into the helicopters under a moonless sky, their bandaged heads grossly swollen by trauma, their forms silhouetted by the glow from the row of medical monitors laid out across their bodies, from ankle to neck.

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At the door to the busiest hospital in Iraq, a wiry doctor bent over the worst-looking case, an Army gunner with coarse stitches holding his scalp together and a bolt protruding from the top of his head. Lt. Col. Jeff Poffenbarger checked a number on the blue screen, announced it dangerously high and quickly pushed a clear liquid through a syringe into the gunner's bloodstream. The number fell like a rock.

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"We're just preparing for something a brain-injured person should not do two days out, which is travel to Germany," the neurologist said. He smiled grimly and started toward the UH-60 Black Hawk thwump-thwumping out on the helipad, waiting to spirit out of Iraq one more of the hundreds of Americans wounded here this month.

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More and more in Iraq, combat surgeons say, the wounds involve severe damage to the head and eyes -- injuries that leave soldiers brain damaged or blind, or both, and the doctors who see them first struggling against despair.

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"We're saving more people than should be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert Carroll said. "We're saving severely injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the brain."
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and listen to this:

"I'm actually glad I'm here and not at home, tending to all the social issues with all these broken soldiers," Carroll said.


Is anybody here at home attending to "all the social issues with all these broken soldiers" ?

Oh, I'm crying...................

may ruination rain down on the BLOODYHANDS bushgang

[boobooday]

1. This is so sad

They are just as invisible as the coffins coming back.

Will they be our homeless years from now, the people those nasty right-wingers yell at from their car windows to "get a job?"

:cry:

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[madrchsod]

2. bush put the screws to the usa doctors

who wanted to go to cuba to a conference that dealt with severe brain damaged people and when to "call" them dead. the misery of the families of these soldiers is unjustified and criminal. but bush and this friends across the political and business landscape will never feel the agony of the wounded and their loved ones,they will pleasure themselves in the vast amounts of money they have recieved...

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Our soldiers, the Iraqi children....

It's awful. :(

[donsu]

4. the states are cutting services that the wounded really need now

as an example Fl. has cut funding for a group that trains people with missing limbs for jobs and general living.