US 'smuggles wounded troops home' under cover of darkness

US 'smuggles wounded troops home' under cover of darkness

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington

10 April 2005

The Pentagon has been accused of smuggling wounded soldiers into the US under cover of darkness to avoid bad publicity about the number of troops being injured and maimed in Iraq. The media have also been prevented from photographing wounded soldiers when they arrive at hospital.

Records show that flights from military bases in Germany arrive in the US only at night. Officials say this is purely the result of flight-scheduling pressures and is not a deliberate tactic to minimise detrimental publicity. They also say that by leaving Europe later in the day soldiers are given a better chance to sleep well the night before.

But many campaigners believe otherwise. Just as the Bush administration has banned the media from taking photographs of the coffins of American troops killed in Iraq as they arrive in the US, opponents say it is now trying to cover up the number of wounded.

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Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Operation Truth, a group set up for veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, said: " would fit in with everything else they have done. It would be part of an effort to keep the cost of this war away from the American public. It is not surprising, but it is depressing. It should piss people off."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=627924

...they are no longer of any use to der fuhrer. And chimpy certainly can't be bothered with anything that has no benefit to him because, as with everything else in his pathetic excuse for a life, it's all about him.

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and are, in his eyes, better off dead.

outside Walter Reed Hospital to publicize this issue...gotta love her and them.

because we'll never see this on Meet the Press

,...trademark.

I hope I witness their impeachment/indictment/incarceration! :grr:

the punishment for treason during a time of war was death. But I could be wrong.