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The Whiskey Priest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 09:48 PM
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Anyone know how many of our wounded in Iraqi are on a life support system?

Or, how many of the Iraqi we have liberated, that were injuried during the liberation, that are on life-support systems?
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 09:49 PM
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1. you know no ones knows. it's meant that way.
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 09:54 PM
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2. Poignant question (n/t)
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WearyOne Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 09:59 PM
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3. that poor country needs to be on life support
the corporate media couldn't care less about the welfare of Iraqis.
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Conservativesux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:08 PM
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6. The corporate masters could care less about American workers too!
Only the rich have "rights" these days.
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WearyOne Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:14 AM
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11. true ..workers anywhere don't exist except as slaves
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 02:14 AM by WearyOne
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PsN2Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 09:59 PM
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4. Can't be going to those extremes
to keep troops alive. That would mean you'd have to keep paying them even while they were in a "vegatative state".
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bush_is_wacko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:08 PM
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5. Nope. The government won't release those pesky details!
But I did just read a story about someone that claims they saw a late night plane full of them delivered up to the army and naval hospitals. He claimed there were at least two of them connected to the whole kit and caboodle. I'll have to look around for it and post it for you!

Why aren't Americans screaming at the top of their lungs to know where all these injured soldiers are and how bad off they are? All the good Christian's seem so concerned that we "support our troops" but have they even bothered to ask about the injured?
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bush_is_wacko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:17 PM
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9. Here's that article I mentioned...
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The Whiskey Priest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:36 PM
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10. Thanks
I overlooked that in Salon
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:15 PM
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7. Do they survive long enough to get to life support systems?
Edited on Sun Mar-20-05 10:15 PM by Lars39
and is the money there?

http://tinyurl.com/6gnga
Brain injury therapy being underfunded (bush slashed funding)

March 18, 2005

According to doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., 60 percent of the wounded soldiers coming back from Iraq have traumatic brain injuries.

Unfortunately, the Bush administration has recently completely zeroed out funding for the Federal TBI Act, which provides exactly this kind of help.

In Vermont, due to recent decisions concerning budgetary shortfalls, TBI survivors are now prevented from entering the Vermont TBI Medicaid Waiver Program, which delivers exactly this kind of help.

Please call the governor (802) 828-3345 and our congressional representatives and ask them to support the Vermont TBI Medicaid Waiver Program.

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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:15 PM
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8. Iraq war head wounds and brain injuries
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-03-brain-trauma-lede_x.htm

"It's a type of injury some military doctors say has become the signature wound of the Iraq war."
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