Reply #2: Lots of evidence that the Pentagon is sharply understating the stats. [View All]

[Striker Davies]

A couple of Australian journalists spent some time visiting the hospitals, making themselves very unpopular with the US Commanders, but actually counting the bodies, both Coalition and Iraqi.

At the time when the US death rate was given as 500, the journalists provided data showing the real death toll was over 1,000. The figures on wounded are worse, never mind that the term "wounded" covers everything from minor injuries to multiple limb loss, lost eyes, paralysis, etc. Evidence suggests over 6,000 Coalition wounded.