Note that the post talks of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan both as the war on terror!! At least Iraq is an occupation after an illegal invasion and Afghanistan also involved the overthrow of a government and consequent occupation but with more international junior imperialists than in Iraq at most in the Afghan case the Taliban gave aid and comfort to terrorists.
Cheers, Ken Hanly U.S. Military Wounded Numbers More Than 6,000, Wash. Post Says Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. war on terrorism has wounded about 6,120 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington Post said. Many soldiers are treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where doctors have seen 3,358 soldiers from Operation Iraqi Freedom, including 741 battle casualties. The rest have suffered from non-combat conditions ranging from heat exhaustion to road accidents, the Post said. A spokesman for Walter Reed said the hospital spent $42.3 million in fiscal 2003 treating wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. In fiscal 2004, the cost has been $37.1 million, and that is expected to rise, the Post said. (Washington Post 8-11 A1)
