Although this is a factual question, I suspect the answers may be too hot for General Questions.
According to his latest cartoon:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/20050808/cx_tr_uc/tr20050808
internal Pentagon documents suggest that the death toll in Iraq for US Military is 9000 rather than 1800.
I have googled for this but only found references to Rall’s cartoon.
Does he have sources; are they publically available?
It sounds like Ted got his figures from a blog.
Apparentlt they don’t count the deaths caused by flying pigs.
Sorry, I searched “Ted Rall” and it gave me no recent postings and nothing on this. If I had searched for “Rall” I wouldn’t have done this. :wally
Moderators, please close this Thread.
The numbers being thrown around sound high. There are around 14000 wounded and to have 4200 (`6000 - 1800) die of wounds after leaving Iraq isn’t reasonable. It also isn’t reasonable that none of the wounded that are evacuated out of Iraq subsequently died of wounds received there.
The military could clear this up by stating total deaths separately identified as “killed in action” plus “died of wounds.”
Mods, kindly close this thread. A very sane and reasonable discussion on this is going on in GQ.
I asked for the GQ thread to be moved here.
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Locked at the request of the OP.
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Your hat appears to have misfired.
Did you remember to engage the chin strap? 