Toll on U.S. troops in Iraq grows as wounded rolls appr

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Toll on U.S. troops in Iraq grows as wounded rolls approach 10,000(full article)

BY ROGER ROY

The Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, Fla. - (KRT) - Nearly 10,000 U.S. troops have been killed, wounded, injured or become ill enough to require evacuation from Iraq since the war began, the equivalent of almost one Army division, according to the Pentagon.

Unlike the more than 2,800 American fighting men and women logged by the Defense Department as killed and wounded by weapons in Iraq, the numbers of injured and sick have been more difficult to track, leading critics to accuse the military of under-reporting casualty numbers.

Military officials deny they are fudging the numbers. But the latest figures show that 9,675 U.S. troops have been killed, wounded, injured such as in accidents, or become sick enough to require airlifting out of Iraq.

"I don't think even that is the whole story," said Nancy Lessin of Boston, the mother of an Iraq war veteran and co-founder of Military Families Speak Out, a group opposed to the war in Iraq.

"We really think there's an effort to hide the true cost in life, limb and the mental health of our soldiers," Lessin said. "There's a larger picture here of really trying to hide and obfuscate what's going on, and the wounded and injured are part of it."

The number of sick and injured is almost certainly substantially higher, because the figures provided by the military last week include totals only through Oct. 30.

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[xpyrate]

Well, there can't be any doubt that the people who propell this war want to minify the causualties we are recieving. It wouldn't be "prudent" of them, and would give the dissedents more of a reason to denounce the war and they know that.

I mean, the war is going well as far as wars go and I think so long as we stick to it we will be able to accomplish the mission assuming of Bush is not an idiot ... umm ... yea ...