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:: 11.03.2003 ::
Estimates of the number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq range from 827 to more than 8,000, depending on who you ask. Why is it such a big mystery? The consensus seems to be that the wounded are too depressing a topic -- and also that they might threaten Bush's popularity.
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President Bush landed on the U.S.S. Lincoln on May 1 and declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq. Since that overhyped media event, the president has repeatedly visited with troops that have returned intact, and he has issued statements honoring the dead.
But the president has not shown up at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to shake hands with the recovering Robert Garrisons or Kenneth Dixons. Journalists should pay these visits for him, to tell us the stories of these men and women, whose problems will stretch into the coming years. And they should ask the president why he is so reluctant to see these troops he sent so confidently into battle.
[emphasis added] Via Bill Berkowitz at TomPaine.com
Update: more on the topic here in the Toronto Star.
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