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Iraq's quiet casualties
Washington Monthly, Sept, 2003 by Charles Peters
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> "War casualties overflow Walter Reed Hospital." This headline is not from some left-wing anti-war publication. It appeared in the conservative, pro-Bush Washington Times in early August. It suggests a story I haven't seen reported by the American media. What is the total number of service people wounded or injured in Iraq since the year began? (The English newspaper The Guardian says "unofficial figures are in the thousands.") Where and how well have they been treated? How many have died? How many are permanently disabled? I suspect the cost of this war is much greater in human terms than the far less important, but still troubling, extra financial cost we've been learning about.
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