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NEWS UPDATES ABOUT THE WAR

Jessie [no longer around] said Oct 12, 2006, 1:20 PM:
 
1 in 4 RETUNING VETERANS FROM IRAQ/AFGANISTAN
 IS DISABLED AS A RESULT OF THEIR SERVICE
While the number of Iraqi deaths since the US-led invasion is the subject of much dispute, the number of American soldiers killed is a carefully recorded figure. So far, 2,754 US troops have been killed in Iraq. While the US death toll is widely reported in the media, the hidden cost on soldiers who return from fighting is not.

Newly released documents reveal that more 150,000 soldiers who left the military after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have been at least partly disabled as a result of service - this translates to one in four veterans. What’s more, it appears the Department of Veterans’ Affairs has tried to hide the figures.

The documents on the number of disability claims filed by veterans were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. But the VA initially denied the existence of the records for nine months. It was only after the Archive advised the VA that it was prepared to file a lawsuit did the agency manage to locate the records.

Paul Sullivan is the director of programs for Veterans for America and a former VA analyst. He helped the Archive with their FOIA request.

* Paul Sullivan. Director of Programs for Veterans for America, an advocacy group, and a former V.A. analyst.

(SOURCE=http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/145238)

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STUDY: “650,000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN IRAQ SINCE
THE US-LED INVASION BEGAN”
The White House is dismissing the findings of a medical study that says 650,000 people have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion . The study was conducted by American and Iraqi researchers and published in the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet. We’re joined by the report’s co-author, epidemiologist Les Roberts. [includes rush transcript] More than 650,000 people have died in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion of the country began in March of 2003. This is according to a new study published in the scientific journal, The Lancet. The study was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. Researchers based their findings on interviews with a random sampling of households taken in clusters across Iraq. The study is an update to a prior one compiled by many of the same researchers. That study estimated that around 100,000 Iraqis died in the first 18 months after the invasion.

Les Roberts joins us now from Syracuse, New York – He is one of the main researchers of the study. He was with Johns Hopkins when he co-authored the study but has just taken a post at Columbia University.

(SOURCE= http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/12/145222)

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