For those who believe the DOD

[seemslikeadream]

Please just remember


The Persian Gulf War official statistics - wounded 467

However, as of the year 2000, 183,000 U.S. veterans of the Gulf War, more than a quarter of the U.S. troops who participated in War, have been declared permanently disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Casualties


467 vs 183,000 (as of 2000) quite a discrepancy wouldn't you say?



The Persian Gulf War official statistics - dead 148


Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are now dead

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/31/5878


148 - 11,000 quite a discrepancy wouldn't you say?


So what's the truth here? Who's telling the truth? It certainly isn't the DOD. They weren't telling the truth about the "first" gulf war. WHY in God's name would ANYONE believe their figures about the "second" gulf war.




http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1537224
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
The Forgotten Casualties of War: Over 17,000 U.S. Troops Wounded


http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?page=article&id=1542

10% at Army hospital had mental problems

LANDSTUHL, Germany, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- As many as 1 of every 10 soldiers from the war on terror evacuated to the Army's biggest hospital in Europe was sent there for mental problems.



Between 8 and 10 percent of nearly 12,000 soldiers from the war on terror, mostly from Iraq, treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany had "psychiatric or behavioral health issues," according to the commander of the hospital, Col. Rhonda Cornum.



That means about 1,000 soldiers were evacuated for mental problems.



The hospital has treated 11,754 soldiers from the war on terror, with 9,651 from Iraq and the rest from Afghanistan, according to data released by the hospital.



"We certainly have seen an average, I would say, of 8 to 10 percent of our casualties have some psychiatric or behavioral health issues for which they were evacuated," Cornum told United Press International in an interview at the hospital.


http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/
US Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan:
A Running Log

http://www.counterpunch.org/goff08012003.html
The Missing Wounded
Injury and Decorum in Iraq
By STAN GOFF


http://icasualties.org/oif/US_chart.aspx





THERE IS A REASON THEY DO THIS AT NIGHT

[The Magistrate]

1. Again, Ma'am, This Is A Mis-Use Of Numbers

The disability figures and death figures do not refer to the class of persons deployed in the Gulf, but to all military personnel in the service at the time of the conflict. Thus, it draws on a pool of several millions, and includes a number of persons already of fairly advanced age nearly twenty years ago. The idea that every person serving in the military in the early nineties who is now registered as disabled by the V.A. is so by virtue of wound or injury sustained in that conflict is simply nonesense.