7.000 verletzte GIs aus dem Irak in Landshut

[osiris1806]

Wo tauchen diese zahlen in den MainStream Medien auf????
Das ist erst der Anfang, ich persönlich glaub nicht an die US GefallenenZahl 396, man kann nun spekulieren.


Marni McEntee
Stars and Stripes European edition

November 5, 2003, Summary: The international media needs to report this grim statistic far and wide: More than 7,000 wounded US soldiers have been treated at a single US military hospital in Germany. The counts of wounded treated at other US military hospitals is unknown. An investigation should be launched immediately to determine how and why the US military is downplaying (at best) or concealing (at worst) the high number of wounded from the US - Iraq War ...


http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17821&archive=true

 

[Agarthe]

Ich lese in dem verlinkten Text nur sowas:

“The impression that you get is that you’re just so proud of these young people who are doing something that our country has made a habit of doing for many, many years,” Akin said.

Wo ist der von Dir zitierte Ausschnitt? :gruebel:

 

[osiris1806]

@agarthe...

bitte lies den gesamten Text, steht im letzten drittel

ich setze den mal hier rein

By Marni McEntee, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, November 5, 2003



Michael Abrams / S&S
Left to right: Reps. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich.; Jeb Bradley R-N.H.; Todd Akin, R-Mo.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; and Steve Pearce, R-N.M., listen to Brad Miller, D-N.C., discuss their visit to Iraq during a news conference at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center on Tuesday. The congressmen visited wounded servicemembers there following their return from Iraq.


LANDSTUHL, Germany — Six U.S. congressmen visiting Iraq to study small-business opportunities got a close-up look at the danger facing U.S. soldiers and its aftermath at a military hospital in Germany.

The delegation of four Republicans and two Democrats happened to be in midair Sunday on a C-130 transport plane over Iraq when word of the deadly Chinook crash came to the pilots in the cockpit, Rep. Todd Akin, chairman of the House small-business subcommittee, said during a news conference Tuesday.

Akin, R-Mo., said the trip, which included visits to troops in Baghdad, Balad, Tikrit and Kirkuk, helped the representatives understand the perils troops face as well as the progress they are making.

The Chinook crashed after witnesses reported seeing a missilelike object hit the aircraft. Fifteen soldiers were killed and 21 were injured. The injured soldiers are being treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Most of the time, the representatives were traveling via Black Hawk helicopters, said Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C.

“It is unmistakable that Iraq is still a war zone,” Miller said. He said there is an average of 35 attacks a day against soldiers and 95 percent of those soldiers survive their injuries, he said.

“There is nothing isolated about it,” he said of the attacks.

Tensions among the group were a little higher when they were flying in blackout conditions at night.

“After we knew the Chinook had gone down and we flew at night in a darkened helicopter, we knew this was a dangerous place and we’re at war,” said Democrat Ed Case of Hawaii.

However, he said: “Whatever increased risk we faced, it was nothing compared to what the frontline troop goes through every day.”

The delegation made a stop at the military hospital in Landstuhl, which has treated more than 7,000 injured and ill servicemembers from the Iraq war. The congressmen met with several injured soldiers, one whose arm had been amputated by a rocket-propelled grenade, and another who was injured by a homemade bomb.

“The impression that you get is that you’re just so proud of these young people who are doing something that our country has made a habit of doing for many, many years,” Akin said. “They’re basically the life-support system of a new, struggling country.”

Akin said the trip brought home to the delegation the realities of the war on terrorism, though “it comes at a cost.”

As of Monday, 376 U.S. servicemembers have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Defense Department. On Tuesday, the death toll increased to 377 when a 1st Armored Division soldier was killed in a roadside bombing.[/b]

 

[Agarthe]

Wo finde ich das hier?

An investigation should be launched immediately to determine how and why the US military is downplaying (at best) or concealing (at worst) the high number of wounded from the US - Iraq War ...

Mich interessiert nur, wo Du diese Einleitung hernimmst.

 

[bombaholik]

ach dann z#ählen die die warscheinlich gar nicht ma mit die in deutschen krankenhäußern verrecken!

 

[MrMister]

7.000 verletzte GIs aus dem Irak in Landshut

Steht im Text nicht Landstuhl?

Eben mit einem Freund in den USA gesprochen, in den Nachrichten kommt dazu kein Wort (ok, in D auch nicht...)

 

[bombaholik]

ich frag mich wie die da 7000 versorgen....dürfte n bissl überzogen sein!

 

[trashy]

In Landstuhl ist ein Krankenhaus der europäischen US-Streitkräfte, selbst PFC Jessica Lynch wurde da behandelt. Liegt glaub irgendwo bei Ramstein um die Ecke und Ramstein dürfte ja hinlänglich bekannt sein.

Ich denk mal die Zahl steht für die Verletzten (Absolute) die in Landstuhl bisher behandelt wurden.

gruß

trashy

 

[forcemagick]

naja nun muss man aber auch sehen dass hier von verletzten und kranken die rede ist...

bei den mehreren hundertausend soldaten dort unten halte ich es für nicht wirklich unwahrscheinlich, wenn da auch ein paar tausend einfache blinddärme, herzinfarkte, schlaganfälle etc. dabei sind....

ich hab zwar auch meine zweifel an den offiziellen gefallenen zahlen.... aber ich glaube auch nicht, dass da zigtausende amerikaner gefallen sind.. das hätte sich viel zu schwer vertuschen lassen...