Newsweek: 50,000 soldiers seriously wounded.

[Danieljay]

About 50,000 service members so far have been banged up or burned, suffered disease, lost limbs or sacrificed their mental well-being while implementing American policies in dangerous places.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17316437

So sad.

Per the request... Photos of our wounded brothers and sisters.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=17301066,3032542&pg=1

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=14607789,3032542&pg=1

[CJCRANE]

1. F***!

That's bad. I didn't know it was that many.

[Danieljay]

5. A huge number wouldn't have survived their injuries 30 years ago...

The human cost of this war in this perspective is more like Vietnam than people think. Lost lives goes beyond death count.

[Monkeyman]

13. You should of been reading my post I been telling about this for three or four months

[Lars39]

14. I had bookmarked this from 2004:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2459750

[Monkeyman]

16. Yep Great Bookmark

[w8liftinglady]

2. the DOD quotes 25,000+/-

[Quantess]

20. Sure, but what's their definition of "serious"?

As opposed to Newsweek's definition?

[GreenZoneLT]

22. Not sure of Newsweek's

DOD doesn't count you as seriously wounded unless you're unable to return to duty in some fairly short period. Basically, anybody who gets evaced from Iraq to Germany is considered seriously wounded.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. For 50,000 wounded, ~3,500 dead...

ten thousand desertions or more?

How long can these losses be sustained without a draft?

[NotGivingUp]

4. when is this insanity going to end?

people keep getting killed and maimed so that a few can get more rich and powerful. we must put an end to this.

[jannyk]

6. that's double the 'official' figure !! eom

[izzie]

7. One is to many for Bush's war.

Madness and it goes on.

[Lars39]

8. K&R

:cry:

[hedgehog]

9. If any thread need pictures, it's this one.

And I don't mean pictures of a strong young man with a tidy folded sleeve, I mean pictures of some of the seriously damage people of all ages who are coming home to live with this the rest of their lives. Going by what happened after the Viet Nam War, Baghdad will be a tourist paradise and these people will be left forgotten in back rooms.

[Danieljay]

11. per your request:

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=17301066,3032542&pg=4


http://www.msnbc.com/modules/interactive.aspx?type=ss&launch=14607789,3032542&pg=1

[CrazyOrangeCat]

10. K&R

Mind-numbing.

Goddamn horrible bastards still want more blood . . .

[Fridays Child]

12. What would the death toll be, if our troops in Iraq had access only to...

...Vietnam era medical care? I'm happy that the survival rate is better, these days, but, in measuring the violence our troops face in Iraq compared to the violence they faced in Vietnam, the death toll is probably an extremely inaccurate indicator.

[hedgehog]

18. Agreed .Counting these people as wounded inevitably puts people In mind of something like

John Kerry's shrapnel wounds. Not to denigrate John Kerry, but all too many envision a flesh wound that is painful but easily repaired.

[mod mom]

15. How much longer do we have to put up with this shit? This makes me sick.

These kids went into the service WITH NOBLE INTENTIONS and these thugs stole their way into office and lead this country into an immoral war based on LIES and have GROSSLY PROFITTED FROM IT while using our soldiers as disposable pawns-not supplying them with the proper body armor, and sending them back again and again. They are doing it on the cheap while billions are missing and billions more have found their way into the coffers of the corporate robber barons like Halliburton and other buSh corporate cronies. These guys are getting FILTHY RICH at the expense of our military. STOP THIS MADDNESS!

Can someone please explain to me why there are any Dems who do not support Murtha's bill? Seriously, why should they send folks into battle w/o b eing fully trained or protected?

[Cha]

17. About time a national magazine reported

just how many Wounded there are from going into bush's bombed out country of Iraq.

[City Lights]

19. OMG! I had no idea the number of wounded was so high!

:cry:

[w8liftinglady]

21. they have low-balled this number for so long

who knows what the real number is...