Our military hospitals so full, they're putting the wounded in hotels

[lindashaw]

Wounded, Weary And Disappeared

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A mid-August report in The Salt Lake City Tribune claims that Central Command has acknowledged 1,007 U.S. wounded. (The Pentagon did not respond to inquiries.)

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John Stauber, author of the recently released book The Weapons of Mass Deception, says the war was sold on television as a sanitized war with minimal U.S. casualties -- which was exactly what the Bush administration tried to engineer. "Showing wounded soldiers and interviewing their families could be disastrous PR for Bush's war," he says. "I suspect the administration is doing all it can to prevent such stories unless they are stage managed feel-good events like Saving Private Lynch."

Tod Ensign directs Citizen Soldier, a GI rights advocacy organization. He thinks the failure to cover the wounded indicates an implicit loyalty to the White House, and a reluctance to address a failed Iraq policy. "The American media is by and large controlled and dominated by corporations that line up politically with the Bush administration," Ensign says.

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8736

[Ilsa]

1. Thanks, I now have a new link: Citizen Soldier

www.citizen-soldier.org

[MasonJar]

2. soldiers in Iraq

Tonight I had on BBC News; they showed a picture of the British soldier killed today. They expressed great sorrow and bereavement for his death. They offered sympathy to the family. We seldom know the names of the Americans killed, and we certainly never have their picture on tv. The only exception to this is Bill Lehrer News; they show the pic when the death is definitely confirmed. This young and handsome British soldier died today.