Anyone else heard this rumor? DOD reports should be 25% higher

[Nikepallas]

and injury reports are also higher than TV reporting. I was surfing the web late last night and saw ir on a website but for the life of me can't remember where I found it.

[stellanoir]

1. here's one source. . .

The Voice of the White House
January 5, 2005: “Gonzales is a butt-kissing idiot but who knows what Congress will do about him. No one wants to be seen voting against the first Beaner AG although his activities leave a great deal to desire. Bush wants him in because Alberto will do exactly what Bush wants. Bush wanted to torture Arabs and Al broke his neck trying to find justification. He is typical of the toadies that Bush loves to have around, sucking up to him and licking him behind the ears. We would do just as well with Charles Manson in the job. People here say that anything is better than nutty John Ashcroft but Gonzales comes very close….the death tolls in Iraq are very certainly downplayed. I read an estimate that there are about 25% more deaths than are reported but since the DoD is responsible for the information, no one can really check on the accuracy. Everyone I have talked to put the real toll at over 4,000 dead and about 17,000 wounded and of these, about 8,000 are crippled for life. “

from http://tbrnews.org

[seemunkee]

2. a friend at Walter Reed has said the same

numbers are being under reported.

[TomClash]

3. I've made this point several times

Over 22,000 treated at Landstuhl, the hospital in Germany. Landstuhl treats only seriously wounded soldiers. Only about 12,000 reported casualties in Iraq and another 2,000 in Afghanistan. You do the math.

[FloridaPat]

4. I've been hearing this since the beginning. I have not heard on

report of an injured person dying. If you notice that the number of soldiers killed are those killed in Iraq. As for the number of injured, 33,000 have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. This whole thing is a lie from start to now. And the lies will continue.

There are stories of mass graves in Iraq - of US soldiers. Mostly those without families and those who are non-citizens that got talked into this to get their citizenship. Another story is they are dumping the bodies into the rivers to get rid of them.