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Compiled by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com
US military occupation forces in Iraq under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 41 combat casualties in the week ending June 30, 2009 as the official total rose to at least 72,351. The total includes 34,864 dead and wounded from what the Pentagon classifies as "hostile" causes and more than 37,487 dead and medically evacuated (last reported April 4, 2009) from "non-hostile" causes.*
The actual total is over 100,000 because the Pentagon chooses not to count as "Iraq casualties" the more than 30,000 veterans whose injuries-mainly brain trauma from explosions - were diagnosed only after they had left Iraq.**
US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by occasionally reporting only the total killed (4,321 as of June 30, 2009) but rarely mentioning the 31,408 wounded in combat. To further minimize public perception of the cost, they cover for the Pentagon by ignoring the 36,624 (as of April 4))*** military victims of accidents and illness serious enough to require medical air evacuation, although the 4,321 reported deaths include 865 (up two) who died from those same causes, including at least 18 from faulty electrical work by KBR and 177 suicides through 2008.****
Key:
* The number of wounded is updated weekly by the Pentagon.
** New York Times, Jan 26, 2009
*** the number of "non combat" injured is reported irregularly by the Pentagon.
**** NYTimes, Jan 30, 2009
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