The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties i

[kster]

A group of seven House Democrats wrote President Bush this week, accusing the Pentagon of underreporting casualties in Iraq.

It's a shocking charge. The letter writers argue that Pentagon casualty reports show only a sliver of the injuries, mostly physical ones from bombs or bullets. But war doesn't work like that, the Democrats declare, adding that the reports skip a horrible panoply of accidents, illness, disease and mental trauma.

"We are concerned that that the figures that were released to the public by your administration do not accurately represent the true toll that this war has taken on the American people," the group wrote Bush on Dec. 7. The Dems are right.

Pentagon casualty reports show 2,390 service members dead from Iraq and Afghanistan and over 16,000 wounded. By far the vast majority of the wounded and dead are from Iraq.



http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121105X.shtml

[evolved Anarchopunk]

1. thats right they are. Widows of servicemen who killed themselves

self-admittedly from PTSD cannot get their husbands' death accounted for properly either. A micro example of a macro policy demonstrated here. I wonder if we have all the evidence these Representatives do.

Rep. John Conyers, Jr.

Rep. Sam Farr

Rep. Raul M. Grijalva

Rep. Carolyn Maloney

Rep. Betty McCollum

Rep. Jim McDermott

Rep. Jan Schakowsky

are the seven.

[kster]

3. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. is always on top of things..nt

[babylonsister]

2. Yeah! Good for them; I hope they can get to the truth. Rec'd! nt

[kster]

4. I think its only a matter of time for the truth to come out..nt