Bring Out Yer Dead

...just wait until they're out of Iraq.

From Simbaud at King of Zimbla:

"The sad fact, even sadder than the way I feel right now after having read those names, is that we may not even have the real story. We may not know the true costs of this war. I am told U.S. military personnel who died in German hospitals [or] en route to German hospitals are not counted. So, in addition to the more than 1,000 Americans who have lost their lives in this war, there are an additional 6,210 who died in German hospitals or en route to those hospitals.
~ Cynthia McKinney

What do we know about how American war dead are counted? And doesn't the American public have an absolute right to know?

Bush lied to get us in Iraq, lies to keep us there and lies to keep his sorry ass outta hot water. I'm so accustomed to being lied to by the criminals of the Bush malAdministration that I have a hard time believing Bush henchmen wouldn't lie in order to minimize American casualties in Iraq and possibly Afghanistan. Like the delusional half-wits who helped bring them to power, these are people who much prefer a comforting lie to an uncomfortable truth.


Does anyone in the House or Senate care enough to insist on an accurate count of American casualties? Probably not. Their complicity may well be a strong motivation for denial.

But I get the distinct impression there's a very ugly story here.