Italians Wounded in Iraq Make Tearful Homecoming

Filed at 1:06 p.m. ET

ROME (Reuters) - Wounded survivors of Italy's worst military slaughter since World War II returned home from Iraq on Friday as the country prepared to hold a state funeral next week for the 16 soldiers and two civilians who died.

Priests and doctors were the first to board the huge C-130 military transport plane when it arrived, offering medical and spiritual comfort.

Ambulances took the roughly 20 wounded, some with head bandages and arm casts and on stretchers, to a military hospital in central Rome.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-italy.html

Where are the articles and pictures of OUR wounded?! :grr:

Too bad they can't honour American dead in the same way.

dead soldiers would just prove that WE (US soldiers) are dying over there. Iraqi deaths are not worth mentioning because the majority of Americans don't think about Iraqis except to say "but Saddam killed his own people." Apparently when we are killing them it is not worth mentioning it.

http://drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

U.S. casualties from Iraq war top 9,000
By MARK BENJAMIN
UPI
**Exclusive**
Fri Nov 14 2003 14:28:40 ET

WASHINGTON-- The number of U.S. casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom -- troops killed, wounded or evacuated due to injury or illness -- has passed 9,000, according to new Pentagon data.

In addition to the 397 service members who have died and the 1,967 wounded, 6,861 troops were medically evacuated for non-combat conditions between March 19 and Oct. 30, the Army Surgeon General's office said.

That brings total casualties among all services to more than 9,200, and represents an increase of nearly 3,000 non-combat medical evacuations reported since the first week of October. The Army offered no immediate explanation for the increase. A leading veterans' advocate expressed concern.

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his "suddenly disappearing" links.

I hope that Italians learn from their own degradation under fascism and don't allow the current expedition to become another harbinger for Italian imperialism. Italy, like Japan, has no business emerging as an aggressive military power once again.