Why does our Media and Government Decieve the people on the Actual Death Counts of U.S. Soilders?

Question

They are trying to keep the count low, A soilder that is wounded in combat and is in transport to medical treatment facilities are not counted as a fatality unless they die in Iraq or Afghanistan, If they are stateside, Germany or over international airspace in route to medical care and pass away, they are not counted as war fatalities!
The real count is 3 times higher than stated!

Answer 1

Just where did you read such unmigrated BS from?

There are plenty of web pages that list ever US casuality by name.

If you look at them, you will see that they list every casuality that died from wounds in Germany or the United States.

Do you really think that not one family of a US soldier who died from their wounds after leaving Iraq or Afghanistan, wouldn't have noticed that their family member wasn't listed as killed in action on any of the web pages that list all US casualties ?

You really think the local communities around Military post wouldn't notice that the unit on post wasn't reporting everyone who was killed in action or died ? or that they were leaving out names of soldiers who had been killed in action or died from wounds ?

You seriously need to consider whether you should continue to visit any webpage or group that post such drivel.

Answer 2

Check some history, would you? Each and EVERY organized conflict in the world from the beginning of time spawns deaths and injuries from the entire spectrum of disease, neglect, and injury. Popular media does not support anything it does not understand. Media = $$$ and they do NOT CARE if you hear the truth. THey themselves are kept from some truth because the general population DOES NOT NEED TO KNOW ALL (ALL) details of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Had this political atmosphere been more prevalent in 1941, we would have had an entirely different experience in WWII, had we even participated at all. We would have screamed "ouch" and patted ourselves on our collective backs for not lifting a finger to defend ourselves. An unfortunate side effect of living in a liberal democracy is that we cannot merely trade security for civil liberties, so people are free to make idiotic statements about things they have no real understanding, and pass on bits and pieces of information they don't understand themselves. At home, I don't want to turn on the news and see operational details pouring out of the TV or PC because I understand that it would undermind the security of troops on the ground. The General Public will NOT ever really understand why they see EXACTLY what the leftist, liberal media WANTS them to see and experience, because it's so easy to see it, read it, and hear it that they assume it's true.... You never hear about the overwhelmingly POSITIVE things going on, just the deaths reported every day. It has been painfully obvious from day one that the media does not approve of the war on terrorism, so they will never report it's full spectrum. They will gladly point out the faults, though.

Answer 3

Really, have you personally kept a tally?

On the same token, the number of wounded soldiers is drastically blown out of proportion. Did you know that if a soldier gets a bloody nose or suffers from a headache which is related to a combat event, that counts as a casualty? I'm not trying to undermine the severity of what happens here, but a lot of the wounded in action are considered "minor", treated (often on site) and returned to duty. However, this is still counted in the total numbers.

Answer 4

This claim can be easily refuted simply by looking at the DOD press releases that announce US military casualties.

Read the following then take yourself and your tinfoil hat elsewhere:

"RELEASE No. 300-07
March 17, 2007

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Spc. Joshua M. Boyd, 30, of Seattle, died Mar. 14 at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device exploded near his unit Mar. 5 in Samarra, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C."

Answer 5

I don't want to get into this discussion about whether theres propaganda or not, since i'm not american.
Anyway, some of you asked for proof of the askers claim.I googled and found that indeed there are claims, mainly by hte puertorican governent and E&P (Editor and Publisher), that
Associated Press indeed gives too low numbers.
Furthermore, it seems there has been a letter by congessmen from dec.7. 2005 that demands to stop giving out too low numbers.

Right now, I can only offer a swiss website (in german) as proof (have it translated by babelfish) :
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:QevUpKQ4IjoJ:www.zeit-fragen.ch/ausgaben/2006/nr-18-vom-252006/associated-press-gibt-zahl-der-gefallenen-im-irak-zu-niedrig-an/+irak+%22zahl+der+gefallenen%22&hl=de&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=de

The Baker-Hamilton report (available here : http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/index.html)
also says that "there is significant underreporting of the violence in Iraq....For example, on one day in July 2006 there
were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported. Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence" (recommendation 76, p.62).This seems to be about all violence in Iraq, not just US casualties, though.

Answer 6

Go to this site and see who is actualy on the list. It CLEARLY states that they all died in IRAQ! not Germany or stateside!

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/list.php

You can read EVEY listed casuality, None of them doed anywhere other than IRAQ or Afghanistan, Wake Up America!


And you may want some more history to understand that Powerful Governments have manipulated populations for political gain!


WAKE UP!

Answer 7

Do you have a source on that? I would be very interested in knowing how you are the only person in the world to have figured this out. I am going to guess it is not first hand observation.
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I just went to the website given below and the 3,000 deaths and 24,000 wounded are the same as the official press releases. So where is the cover up? Is there a website beside this one?

Answer 8

I first read about this three years ago. It was crap then, and it is crap now. While I wouldn't put it past this administration to do that, there is little to no evidence to support that claim.

Answer 9

That's bunk.

Answer 10

you are just trying to make me mad