You can't buy me on the truth...
Only unvarnished facts here.Noah Shachtman at Danger Room finds a 2006 report written for U.S. Special Operations Command that suggests ways the military should deal with the blogosphere. One suggestion is for the military to hire bloggers to “pass the U.S. message“:
Information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence…to pass the U.S. message. … On the other hand, such operations can have a blowback effect, as witnessed by the public reaction following revelations that the U.S. military had paid journalists to publish stories in the Iraqi press under their own names. People do not like to be deceived, and the price of being exposed is lost credibility and trust.
An alternative strategy is to “make” a blog and blogger. The process of boosting the blog to a position of influence could take some time, however, and depending on the person running the blog, may impose a significant educational burden, in terms of cultural and linguistic training before the blog could be put online to any useful effect.
Do you even know how many American soldiers are dead because of Iraq? How many are seriously injured? How do I politely say "Fuck you!" because you very likely did not know? Hell! The majority of you don't seem to care.
American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 4011 3274 3872 3166 Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3550 2966 Since Handover (6/29/04): 3152 2641 Since Election (1/31/05): 2573 2379 American Wounded Official Estimated Total Wounded: 29496 23000 - 100000 Page last updated 03/31/08 12:07 am EDT Iraqi Casualties US Military Deaths by Month from Icasualties.org Other Coalition Troops US Military Deaths - Afghanistan American Civilian Casualties Sources: DoD, CentCom, MNF, and iCasualties.org 20,000 vets' brain injuries not listed
U.S. lacks mechanism to accurately track troops wounded in Iraq
As many as 1 of every 10 soldiers from the war on terror evacuated to the Army's biggest hospital in Europe was sent there for mental problems.
Between 8 and 10 percent of nearly 12,000 soldiers from the war on terror, mostly from Iraq, treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany had "psychiatric or behavioral health issues," according to the commander of the hospital, Col. Rhonda Cornum.
That means about 1,000 soldiers were evacuated for mental problems.
The hospital has treated 11,754 soldiers from the war on terror, with 9,651 from Iraq and the rest from Afghanistan, according to data released by the hospital.
Also see The Missing Wounded.
Dates and sources of Americans killed in Iraq since 5/1/03 are documented in this file. Admittedly the file is incomplete, for the Department of Defense does not maintain old records. All data was compiled from http://www.defenselink.mil. If something is amiss in the data collection, please contact Margaret Griffis.
We maintain a daily count based on news reports. It is not intended to be complete. There is no agency that keeps track of accurate numbers of Iraqis killed. JustForeignPolicy maintains a running estimate based on the Lancet study with the rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count.
Central Command Department of Defense Cost of War BBC News Coalition Casualty Count The Washington Post JustForeignPolicy Fox News Listing by month
You know you couldn't answer these simple questions.
If you are afraid of hearing my opinion on these facts... Don't ask me to tell you the truth. Because I will. Too bad for you if you don't like the answers. Too bad for you if you can't handle the truth.
2 comments:
I think you've been more than "polite." Thanks for the information.
It pisses me off that there have been about 5 reports TOTAL in the media on the number of dead soldiers passing 4000. Never mind that Iraqi deaths, and injured soldiers don't matter at all. sigh...
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