hospitals outside of Iraq from their wounds? The same thing happened in Viet Nam, is this a way of down playing the numbers of those who gave the suprem sacrifice? Or what purpose does it serve?
2006-11-28 22:17:50 · 8 answers · asked by paulisfree2004 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
They try to reduce figures in many different ways. Private contractors die and those death numbers really would have been US troop deaths if they didn't hire so many private contractors. Another way to reduce number people use to gauge the country's sacrifice.
2006-11-28 22:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think official figures and the media should also be focused more on those with permanent and debilitating injuries. Just the other day I saw a local veteran just home from Iraq on television. The reporter labeled him a hero, which I believe he was after having given so much to a country who will give him so little in return.
He was a sergeant wounded in a roadside attack. They wheeled him out in a chair, his head tilted to one side, unable to speak or move other than to blink. His mind was gone due to a permanent brain injury. His body was of no further use to him, paralyzed from the neck down.
This happens every day. There are women missing arms and legs, along with their male comrades. The best this country will do for them is give them a disability check. They will be sent to understaffed and under equipped VA hospitals and seen by doctors who would rather be somewhere else. This is only after being forced to wait months for an appointment, and hours after they get there, sometimes a whole day.
It is shameful the way this country treats it's veterans.
2006-11-29 06:29:40 · answer #2 · answered by Samuel Crow 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For the same reason those figures show every soldier killed, that died in a non combat role. Such as training accidents, car accidents, plane and helicopter crashes not related to combat. Good thing today's Americans weren't around in WWII, we lost as many soldiers in one day then sometimes as we have lost total in the Iraq war. Really make you squirm then wouldn't it?
2006-11-29 06:54:10 · answer #3 · answered by mark g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Far worse things happen over there then getting killed. I know, having spent a year at Walter Reed as a patient. Want to get real upset? When I first got there I had a roommate named Jonathan, 19, who got both his legs blown off. THEY MADE HIM PAY FOR HIS PROSTHETIC ONES.
2006-11-29 06:29:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the administration hates to admit they suffer ANY losses at all...! You can bet on it that ANY losses we do get to hear about are the BARE MINIMUM they need to report - and are as LATE as they can possibly get away with...
Planes & Copters especially - most of the time they just deny and stall details of plane losses for as long as they can - hoping to stifle interest and that requests for details will dry up or just go away.
2006-11-29 08:01:13 · answer #5 · answered by TruthHurts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those that died in the hospitals are listed on Fox news for example. Under "fallen heros".
2006-11-29 06:22:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure our leaders are doing everything they can to keep an unpopular war from becoming even less popular. One way to do that is to downplay and skew the numbers regarding casualties.
2006-11-29 06:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by freshmeatpuppet 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe they knew beforehand. Yes it is.
2006-11-29 06:28:35 · answer #8 · answered by bountyhunter101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋