Lies, lies, and damnable lies, about a war we shouldn't be in.

Press Reports on U.S. Casualties: About 17,000 Short, UPI Says: "Nearly 17,000 service members medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan are absent from public Pentagon casualty reports commonly cited by newspapers, according to military data reviewed by United Press International. Most don't fit the definition of casualties, according to the Pentagon, but a veterans' advocate said they should all be counted.

The Pentagon has reported 1,019 dead and 7,245 wounded from Iraq.
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The Pentagon's public casualty reports, available at www.defenselink.mil, list only service members who died or were wounded in action. The Pentagon's own definition of a war casualty provided to UPI in December describes a casualty as, 'Any person who is lost to the organization by having been declared dead, duty status/whereabouts unknown, missing, ill, or injured.'
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A veterans' advocate said the Pentagon should make a full reporting of the casualties, including non-combat ailments and injuries. 'They are still casualties of war,' said Mike Schlee, director of the National Security and Foreign Relations Division at the American Legion. 'I think we have to have an honest disclosure of what the short- and long-term casualties of any conflict are.'"