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12,000 US Dead, 25,000 Badly Wounded In Iraq?

by GNN (repost)
Evidence is emerging that the number of U.S. armed forces causualities from the war in Iraq is actually much higher than reported. Most likely it is closer to 12,000.
12,000 US Dead, 25,000 Badly Wounded In Iraq?
By GNNews
9-5-06

Note: There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially.
The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000. (See the official records at the end of this piece.) Given the officially acknowledged number of over 15,000 seriously wounded (and a published total of 25,000 wounded overall,), this elevated death toll is far more realistic than the current 2,000+ now being officially published.
When our research is complete, and watertight, we will publish the results along with the sources In addition to the evident falsification of the death rolls, at least 5,500 American military personnel have deserted, most in Ireland but more have escaped to Canada and other European countries, none of whom are inclined to cooperate with vengeful American authorities.
(See TBR News of 18 February for full coverage on the mass desertions) This means that of the 158,000 U.S. military shipped to Iraq, 26,000 deserted, were killed or seriously wounded. The DoD lists currently being very quietly circulated indicate over 12,000 dead, over 25,000 seriously wounded and a large number of suicides, forced hospitalization for ongoing drug usage and sales, murder of Iraqi civilians and fellow soldiers, rapes, courts martial and so on -
The government gets away with these huge lies because they claim, falsely, that only soldiers actually killed on the ground in Iraq are reported. The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported on the daily postings. Anyone who dies just as the transport takes off from the Baghdad airport is not listed and neither are those who die in the US military hospitals.
Their families are certainly notified that their son, husband, brother or lover was dead and the bodies, or what is left of them (refrigeration is very bad in Iraq what with constant power outages) are shipped home, to Dover AFB. This, we note, was the overall policy until very recently. Since it became well known that many had died at Landstuhl, in Germany, the DoD began to list a very few soldiers who had died at other non-theater locations. These numbers are only for show and are pathetically small in relationship to the actual figures.
You ought to realize that President Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any circumstances. He claims that this is to comfort the bereaved relatives but is designed to keep the huge number of arriving bodies secret. Any civilian, or military personnel, taking pictures will be jailed at once and prosecuted. Bush has never attended any kind of a memorial service for his dead soldiers and never will. He is terrified some parent might curse him in front of the press or, worse, attack him.
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by DLi
The Public urgently needs--and righteously deserves--government whistleblowers(like Daniel Ellsberg et al during the Vietnam War)to really expose the fraud that this lying NeoCon Regime is continuing to swindle the nation into this endless War of Terror.
by charity williams
No hear this,
Yes there may be some more dead than they are broadcasting but they do have good readon for that. Why do you care so much about the death toll? Later on it will be very important for the rememberences of those that have lost their lives fighting for their country, but now we should be in support of those over there. My mother is currently stationed in Kuwait and is on the medical team helping, nurturing, and treating those that are at that hospital that are severely wounded and she has seen, heard, and experienced situations that you cannot even imagine. We should be more concerned and supportive of those over there right now than even worry about those cowrads hiding away with their tails between their legs. It is easy to point to someone in power and blame them for problems that they take a part in but if you don't know the whole story and what challenges they face every day, its hard to be justified in criticizing them. Be careful what you say.
by jose
What is the point of arguing statistics of war dead when the only point is the total scraping of the war machine and its manufactury so that peace can take place. The first Canadian Divison knows that.
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