518 Americans wounded in Iraq in July alone

[quaoar]

We tend to focus on the more than 2,500 Americans who have lost their lives in Iraq. What gets very little attention are the hundreds who are wounded, who come back without arms or legs or are permanently disabled or traumatized.

Last month alone the number of wounded soared to 518.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/world/middleeast/17military.html?hp&ex=1155787200&en=fc76d63717088e39&ei=5094&partner=homepage

The increased attacks have taken their toll. While the number of Americans killed in action per month has declined slightly — to 38 killed in action in July, from 42 in January, in part reflecting improvements in armor and other defenses — the number of Americans wounded has soared, to 518 in July from 287 in January. Explosive devices accounted for slightly more than half the deaths.

An analysis of the 1,666 bombs that exploded in July shows that 70 percent were directed against the American-led military force, according to a spokesman for the military command in Baghdad. Twenty percent struck Iraqi security forces, up from 9 percent in 2005. And 10 percent of the blasts struck civilians, twice the rate from last year.

[Wheezy]

1. tragic. Thanks for the info. n/t

[genie_weenie]

2. Sorry! Didn't you get the memo?

No one gives a shit... Everyone is more focused on the power to be gained in winning back the Senate and scoring political points over Allen's racist remark.

Why should anyone with no personal stake really care what happens to the disposable humans dying in a far away land...

[MysteryToMyself]

3. Since women are usually more compassionate than men.....

You would think the women in government would put a lid on war, but they seem to think they have to be "tough". What the world needs today are women to be peacemakers and show the soft side of womanhood and influence the aggressive to rise to higher heights than war.

What good is woman's liberation if they are going to just act like men?

[ComerPerro]

4. how can you worry about wounded soldiers at a time like this?

we might have a new development in the Jean Benet case!