Over 60,000 U.S. Troops Have Been Killed or Injured in Post-9/11 Wars: Report
Source: The Daily Beast
More than 60,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors have been killed or injured in post-9/11 wars, according to a Thursday report from Brown Universitys Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs. That tally only includes casualties that occurred during wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistanand does not include indirect deaths like starvation or lack of medicinemeaning that the true total is likely much higher. Overall, the report notes, wars in those three countries have caused between 480,000 and 507,000 deaths on all sides of the conflicts, about half of which occurred in Iraq alone. This update just scratches the surface of the human consequences of 17 years of war, the report notes. Too often, legislators, NGOs, and the news media that try to track the consequences of the wars are inhibited by governments determined to paint a rosy picture of perfect execution and progress. The US has made some effort to increase transparency, but there are a number of areasthe number of civilians killed and injured, and the number of US military and veteran suicides, for instancewhere greater transparency would lead to greater accountability and could lead to better policy.
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nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Suicide (known to be about 10000 a year)
Drunk driving
Overdoses
etc.
((I'm not counting the vets from past wars still dying off in/outside VA hospitals. They used to have a VA facility (or some such) attached to Bolling AFB's then-hospital in the 60s.))
((or the Agent Orange vets like my father))
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Why Pakistan?
KT2000
(20,577 posts)based on lies. No thought was given to the cost of the turmoil that would go on for years and years. Bush is still a war criminal.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)llmart
(15,539 posts)and W. got to dress up like a war pilot (the chickenshit draft dodger).
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)on the taxpayer................. .
certainot
(9,090 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,738 posts)Had no idea the number even approached 60,000.
EX500rider
(10,848 posts)Vietnam was 58,318 dead/KIA, 303,644 wounded/WIA for 362,000 total.
summer_in_TX
(2,738 posts)I should have realized that.
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)All because George W. Bush ignored his daily briefing warning him that bin Ladin was determine to fly planes into buildings in the U.S.
This all could have been prevented if a competent leader was in charge.