70 Injured U.S. Soldiers Taken to Germany

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041113/API/411130665

By PANOS KAKAVIATOS
Associated Press Writer
RAMSTEIN, Germany
More than 70 U.S. soldiers from Iraq were flown Saturday to a military hospital in Germany, most of them wounded in the battle for Fallujah, officials said.

The 73 new patients at the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center pushed the number of arrivals this week to 412, nearly all injured in Fallujah, hospital spokeswoman Marie Shaw said. The number of beds at the hospital in rural western Germany has been increased to handle the wounded.

"This is more than we usually get," said Erin Zagursky, a spokeswoman at the U.S. Air Force's Ramstein base.

U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a ground assault for Fallujah late Monday after the city's clerical leadership refused to hand over insurgents, including Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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from another of today's AP articles:
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In his weekly radio address, Bush praised the assault on Fallujah, west of Baghdad. About 80 percent of the city was said to be under U.S. control, with insurgents pushed into a narrow corner. But the battle has claimed at least 24 American lives and wounded about 170 U.S. troops, and violence has now spread to other Sunni Muslim areas of Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041113/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

Doesn't include the people taken to other medical facilities.

When are they going to find the WMD?
When are they going to find Osama?

Oh, yeah. I forgot. That's not why we went over there anymore.

Fuck you, Mr. President.

are not walking wounded. These are the seriously wounded.