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09 Aug 06

USATODAY.com - Center for war-related brain injuries faces budget cut

  • Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war.
07 Aug 06

Incalculable pain - Salon

  • Pentagon casualty
    reports

    show 2,390 service members dead from Iraq and Afghanistan and over 16,000 wounded. By far the vast majority of
    the wounded and dead are from Iraq.




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    But by Dec. 8, 2005, the military had evacuated another 25,289 service members from Iraq and Afghanistan
    for injuries or illnesses not caused directly by enemy bullets or bombs, according to the U.S. Transportation
    Command.

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  • many reservists and National Guard members, whose military insurance benefits cover only those problems diagnosed within 180 days after returning from combat. Those two groups now comprise about 40 percent of the front-line forces in Iraq and more than half in Afghanistan, the highest percentage for any war in U.S. history.

Cost of Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion - Martin Wolk: Eye on the Economy - MSNBC.com

  • The most current estimates of the war's cost generally start with figures from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, which as of January 2006 counted $323 billion in expenditures for the war on terrorism, including military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
06 Aug 06

Byrd attacks cost of possible Iraq war

  • With estimates of the potential costs of a war with Iraq ranging from $30 billion to $200 billion, and the federal deficit rising past $200 billion, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is waging a war of his own -- against the administration.

Iraqi Oil Will Pay For This

  • experts said the war and aftermath in Iraq would cost hundreds of
    billions of dollars, a fact the White House refused to acknowledge as valid,
    even going so far as to fire Lawrence Lindsey for his realistic projections

The Seattle Times: Politics: Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute

  • the price tag for combat and nation-building since Sept. 11, 2001, to nearly a half-trillion dollars, approaching the inflation-adjusted cost of the 13-year Vietnam War

National Priorities Project - Cost of Iraq War Rises for Taxpayers


  • The administration submitted another $72.4 billion request for war-related funding to Congress. NPP analyzes the request and what it means to taxpayers in your state.

05 Aug 06

The Costs of War


  • In a seemingly welcome exercise of congressional oversight, Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., held hearings on the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . 
31 Jul 06

Army diverts funds to war - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

  • For a president who campaigned in 2000 on restoring readiness to the armed forces, anecdotal reports of shortfalls of basic equipment is embarrassing as Iraq consumes more than $5 billion a month in Pentagon funds.

Daytona Beach News-Journal Online: 'Definitive answer' on depleted uranium sought for troops

  • After years of veterans pleading for help with illnesses occurring after service in the Gulf wars, the U.S. House and Senate are calling for an immediate study of health effects of exposure to a radioactive metal used in U.S. weapons and armor.

war is a Racket - Smedley Butler

  • It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most
    profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one
    international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are
    reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
27 Jul 06

For wounded veterans, the war goes on (Page 1 of 3)

  • A study by the Insurance Information Institute, or
    III, reports that the average soldier in Iraq has a 1-in-300 chance
    of being wounded in action. Department of Defense statistics reveal
    that nearly 500 personnel are wounded in action in any given month.
    Extrapolating from these figures, the III study estimates that,
    absent a significant drawdown of troop strength in the near future,
    60,000 to 80,000 troops may ultimately end up wounded.

USATODAY.com - Equipment shortfalls hurt Army readiness

  • Up to two-thirds of the Army's combat brigades are not ready for wartime missions, largely because they are hampered by equipment shortfalls, Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday, citing unclassified documents.
22 Jul 06

WorkingForChange-Sick of killing

  • Yet the National
    Center for PTSD estimates that over the course of their lifetimes, over
    half of all male Vietnam vets, and nearly half of female Vietnam vets,
    have suffered full or partial PTSD.

The Herald - 18 Iraq War Veterans Committed Suicide Since 2003

  • Almost one-fifth as many British veterans of the Iraq war have committed suicide since 2003 as have died in combat.


    A total of 13 have taken their own lives after returning to the UK from a tour of duty in Basra and five more while still serving there. That compares with 103 deaths caused by enemy action.

Hidden Combat Wounds: Extensive, Deadly, Costly

  • There have been 53
    suicides among service members fighting in Iraq and nine among those fighting
    in Afghanistan, as reported in a review of suicide data from 2003 to July 19,
    2005
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