3 planeloads a week patients from Iraq War - Alterman

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Name: Tom
Hometown: Northern California
Eric,
I found this story from an Army doctor in Germany. 
(http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dispatches/stories/071904)

"We receive an average of three planeloads a week of U.S. patients from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  That's 60 to 100 patients per load, with problems ranging from simple infections and kidney stones, to multitrauma injuries from bomb and mortar blasts."

"The intensive-care unit and surgical floors are full of young soldiers.  Seeing a newly amputated teenager or blind-for-life youngster is very sobering."

"The whole Iraq thing has certainly polarized our nation, but the news you hear every day doesn't even come close to scratching the surface on how rough things are in Iraq from what the soldiers tell me and from what I see."

What liberal media?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/


From the orginal story:
The intensive-care unit and surgical floors are full of young soldiers. Seeing a newly amputated teenager or blind-for-life youngster is very sobering.

(I only can read 5% of of the feces which the American Media Whores publish but this is the first TV, radio, written source I've read that mentions 'blind' which I've been saying for 1.5 years now. I feel the republicans are trying to hide this fact more than amputees. To show the facts of some many young people blinded would not allow aWol and his repuke leadership to be reelected.)