by Frederick Sweet
Combat veterans wounded in Iraq were left waiting weeks and even months for proper medical attention at military bases. According to an officer, their living conditions were so unacceptable for injured soldiers he said they "were being treated like dogs." Then the Pentagon underreported the number wounded.
The Bush administration, referring to veterans of the war in Iraq, told a House panel that they would avoid last year’s "mistakes" of leaving sick and injured troops (…)
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Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in America
19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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TV Ad Focuses on U.S. Military Wounded in Iraq
19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Robert Acosta lost his arm when his Humvee was attacked in Iraq. (NYT Photo/Ruth Fremson)
WASHINGTON - A new television ad sponsored by U.S. veterans strongly questions President Bush’s case for war in Iraq, but the group behind it said on Wednesday the spot was not meant to benefit either presidential candidate.
First aired hours before the last presidential debate between Republican Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the ad shows a U.S. Iraq war veteran talking about the (…) -
Iraq faces soaring toll of deadly disease
14 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jeremy Laurance
Soaring rates of disease and a crippled health system are posing a new crisis for the people of Iraq, threatening to kill more than have died in the aftermath of the war. Deadly infections including typhoid and tuberculosis are rampaging through the country, according to the first official report into the state of health in the country.
The alarming evidence is the legacy of years of neglect, crippling sanctions and two bloody conflicts. Iraq’s network of hospitals and (…) -
AFGHAN OPIUM:Iraq drug trade grows
11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy T. CHRISTIAN MILLER
Afghanistan’s opium crop this year is set to break all previous records, surging past even the highest levels cultivated during the Taliban regime, top American and international counternarcotics officials said.
At the same time, U.N. and U.S. officials are increasingly worried by signs of a nascent drug trade developing in Iraq, where smugglers are taking advantage of the continuing chaos and unguarded borders.
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U.S. casualties grim cost of Iraq war. Human tragedies take toll on medics
30 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsby SANDRO CONTENTA
LANDSTUHL, Germany?At the U.S. military hospital on a wooded hilltop here, the cost of the Iraq war is measured in amputated limbs, burst eyeballs, shrapnel-torn bodies and shattered lives.
They’re the seriously wounded U.S. soldiers who arrive daily at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a growing human toll that belies American election talk of improving times in Iraq.
They’re the maimed and the scarred that hospital staff believe are largely invisible to an (…)