Number of badly wounded soldiers on rise in Iraq

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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-01-07T022034Z_01_KWA708345_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-VETERANS.xml&archived=False

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Military medical advances are keeping more soldiers alive in the Iraq War but also creating a growing pool of badly wounded veterans who will need expensive, long-term medical care, the U.S. secretary of Veteran Affairs said on Friday.

"We have cut fatalities a great deal and as a result of that we have people who are now seriously wounded who in previous wars would have been dead," Secretary Jim Nicholson in a visit with wounded soldiers at San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center.

"We need to provide and continue to provide these people with world class health care and we need to be there when they need it in the future."

More than 2,000 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq and nearly 9,000 have been wounded, according to the Pentagon.

[babylonsister]

1. The numbers are skewed, the loss is greater, and this situation

really sucks.
In my opinion.

[az chela]

2. I agree

This is such a travisty what we are doing to these heros who have fought and have been wounded and then sewn back together and put back on the battlefield!!!!
END THE WAR NOW

[Wilms]

3. n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. RELATED - Armor that could have prevented many casualties was

available but not provided:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x72586
thread title (1-7-06 GD): Pentagon Had but Withheld Armor that Could Have Saved 80% of KIA in Iraq

I am seriously wondering: are they TRYING to destroy our loyal military? I can think of possible reasons, but they are all very ugly indeed.

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. RELATED - GOP Disinformation campaign re Vets' psychological trauma:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x42329
thread title (1/3 GD): Right wing spin about PTSD ,Vets and diagnosis
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