Hi geode00; Re: "Yep, I've heard as well that the 2125 are KIA and do not include anyone who dies after leaving Iraq."
I doubt that you can name even one US serviceman who was wounded in Iraq, later died of his wounds in the US, but who wasn't listed in the official war dead.
On the other hand, you assertion that the figures "do not include anyone who dies after leaving Iraq" is clearly false. Why don't you read the casualty reports from the Pentagon and verify this? Here's where they are:
www.defenselink.mil/releases/
Here's the most recent who died after leaving Iraq (from a disease identified while in Iraq):
Pfc. Ryan D. Christensen, 22, of Spring Lake Heights, N.J., died at the Medical University of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., on Nov. 24, of a non-combat related illness identified in Balad, Iraq, on Nov. 10.
www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20051128-5165.html
Now is he listed in the KIA in Iraq? According to your claim he certainly shouldn't be. Yet he's in the Coalition Casualties website data for November 24th:
www.icasualties.org/oif/
Just because Bush is an idiot doesn't mean that everything that a lefty says is gold plated truth.
Why don't you think a little deeper about it. Don't you see that if the Pentagon were hiding casualties in the manner you're claiming the mainstream media would be all over them? All that these silly claims do is make the left wing look like idiots.
-- Carl |
