STOP! [Our] Loss

From GI Special 5L1:
U.S. Iraq Casualties Jump To More Than 82,000:
At Least 20,000 Troops Suffered Brain Trauma In Iraq But Are Not Counted As “Wounded In Action”
November 27, 2007 By Michael Munk, Via Portside
US military occupation forces in Iraq suffered at least 55 combat casualties in the week ending Nov. 27, as the official total reached at least 62,044.
[…] US media divert attention from the actual cost in American life and limb by routinely reporting only the total killed (3,878 as of Nov. 27) and rarely mentioning the 28,582 wounded in combat.
To further minimize public perception of the cost, they cover for the Pentagon by ignoring the 30,300 (as of Oct. 1) military victims of accidents and illness that caused death or were serious enough to require medical evacuation, although the 3,878 reported deaths include 716 (up one last week) who died from those same causes, including 130 suicides.
USA Today reported Nov 23 that at least 20,000 US troops suffered brain trauma in Iraq but are not counted as “wounded in action.”
[...] The reason they are excluded from official Pentagon figures is that “Soldiers and Marines whose wounds were discovered after they left Iraq are not added to the official casualty list, says Army Col. Robert Labutta, a neurologist and brain injury consultant for the Pentagon.