I couldnt NOT post this info...the REAL cost of war!

[jlizgar]

This came to my email from the people at Veterans for Common Sense, I think its VERY important info for all Americans to know!

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Weekly Update: 1,664 U.S. Casualties in June; Total Escalates to 65,278

July 5, 2007

Dear Elizabeth:

Veterans for Common Sense receives several e-mails each week asking us for the latest Iraq and Afghanistan war casualty statistics from the Department of Defense.

As recently as July 2, 2007, the media continued to incorrectly report casualty statistics as less than 30,000.

The under-reporting is intentional, as the Pentagon misleads us about the human costs in order to maintain the dwindling Congressional and public support for the lost Iraq War fiasco.

The military misleads the press, public, and Congress by narrowly defining casualties as only those "wounded" while excluding our injured and ill.

The true facts reveal the number of battlefield casualties, defined as "killed, wounded, injured, or ill," from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars escalated to 65,278, as of June 30, 2007, according to official documents obtained by Veterans for Common Sense from the Department of Defense (DoD) using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

VCS totaled the two separate DoD reports into a complete casualty report, showing the total number of combat zone casualties for both wars is now 65,278.

VCS posted the two original DoD reports at our web site for Iraq War casualties and for Afghanistan War casualties.

In the month of June 2007, the U.S. suffered an additional 1,664 casualties - killed, wounded, injured, and ill. That averages more than 55 new casualties every day last month. That's devastating.

Please share these cold, hard facts with your friends, neighbors, and reporters. When you meet with your U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators during their summer vacations, please provide them a copy of our VCS report so they know the facts about the brutal consequences of the two wars.

When it comes to the facts about these two wars, VCS leads the way informing the public, the press, and the Congress.

VCS believes that good government policies begin in the reality based world using facts, not in the pretend world of fear, lies, and incomplete casualty reports issued by the military.

VCS hopes you had a nice Independence Day. Please spread the good word about VCS to your friends and ask them to subscribe to our growing mailing list.

Sincerley,

Paul Sullivan
Executive Director
Veterans for Common Sense

Liz :)

[gacgbaker]

Jul. 5, 2007 at 10:48 AM

War is never pretty, during WW2 we lost almost 300,000 lives, one life is a tradgidy to lose, but sometimes unfortunetly war happens and many lives are lost. 

This is a place that lists all wars and their casulaty numbers, pretty intresting:

War Casualties 

[EmilyNeel]

Jul. 23, 2007 at 8:44 PM

I understand that all wars have casualties.  The thing that stands out to me is the lies.  They are lying to try to hold onto the meager support that they still have.  It adds to the corruptness of this administration, that instead of looking at the numbers and thinking "hmmm...maybe we should think about leaving,' they think "oh no-people may stop supporting us and then we'd have to back out."  It's backwards.  They don't want to listen to the truth.  They don't want to be wrong, and are willing to sacrifice the lives of our men and women no matter what the truth really is.  Why couldn't you post this?  Just  curious!

[EmilyNeel]

Jul. 23, 2007 at 8:45 PM Oh-nevermind...it says "I couldn't NOT post this...".  I thought you meant you didn't want to post it in the group for some reason.  I'm stupid : )

[WatchGirl29]

Aug. 14, 2007 at 9:18 AM It is just another way of the government manipulating facts to do as they will with or without the support of the American people.  The government is "by the people FOR the people"!  Perhaps there are individuals who need to recall this very important fact and back down from their tyranical leading of our country and give it back to the people in which it belongs in the first place.