[lbo-talk] NPR Report Confirms 9000 Wounded Figure

[Dwayne Monroe]

Several months ago I posted a Veterans For Commonsense
article which stated that, as of the time of writing,
7,500 American soldiers had been evacuated from Iraq
due to serious injury or illness.

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http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20031110/027339.html

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http://tinyurl.com/36plp

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Yesterday, a report from NPR's Daniel Zwerdling on the
difficulty of getting firm information about the
wounded quoted an Army spokesman as saying that
approximately 9,000 GIs have been evacuated as of
December, 2003.

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Real Audio / Windows Media Player Link

Measuring Costs of Iraq War

http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1587762

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So we now know that a huge number of GIs have left the
field, many of whom are surely permanently disabled,
disfigured or otherwise damaged for life.

This is an ongoing story of immense proportions which
further calls into question the long-term
sustainability of the effort (*hyperpower* talk
notwithstanding) and needs to be told as widely as
possible.

DRM