Iraq war's 20,000 wounded civilians ignored -group

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07427411.htm

LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Around 20,000 civilians were wounded in the Iraq war and the U.S.-British occupiers are ignoring their suffering, a research group said on Thursday in what it termed the first study of the conflict's casualty toll.

"The maimed civilians of Iraq have been brushed under the carpet," the Iraq Body Count (IBC) said.

The Anglo-American group of academics and peace activists chided U.S. and British postwar administrators for failing to set up programmes for the wounded or pay them compensation.

"A sizeable if as yet unknown proportion of Iraqi families will contain a relative whose life was ended or put on hold by the U.S. or British forces," it said in a report seen by Reuters prior to publication on its website, http://www.iraqbodycount.net.

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[Rose Siding]

1. On the BBC World Report yesterday

I saw coverage of an Iraqi man who had gone outside his gate to pull in people being shot at by Americans during a protest. He had been shot in the leg and his brother had been killed. You could see his leg- the stitches in the stump (God, I wish we had a US media)

He had been given *five hundred dollars US* for his leg. And $1500 for his brother's life.

On edit- He didn't even seem to be filled with rage or hate. His attitude was more one of disbelieving confusion.

[arikara]

9. another kick

And this is probably visible injuries, and not counting those who are sick from exposure to depleted uranium and chemicals.

[qanda]

2. A kick because I really do care! nt

nt

[ninkasi]

3. And this is "Liberation?"

After giving every excuse from imminent threat, to U.N. violations, the Bushies seemed to settle on liberating the Iraqui people. I wonder how many of the relatives of the dead and maimed consider this to be a good thing?

[wtmusic]

4. What about the 20K who died?

Between 13K-43K Iraqi military dead (some burned alive in napalm, we now learn) according to the Guardian. Along with 7K civilians (IraqBodyCount.net) killed in an illegal, unprovoked war, the Bush administration is responsible for 7 times the number of deaths that occurred on 9/11.

Who's the terrorist again?

[sujan]

5. what about the thousands who died in afghanistan?

Where's the fucking outrage?

[arcane1]

6. they hate us for our freedoms, remember...

we are free to kill and maim as many of them as possible, and are only barely free enough to complain about it

:grr:

[NNN0LHI]

7. I am going to kick this story once n/t

[PartyPooper]

8. Americans have shown their true colors of indifference.

I have seen very little outrage-or coverage by the U.S. media on the Iraqi casualties of this invasion. What little is shown seems to be met with a "whatever" attitude. (They did show that young Iraqi boy...the teen whose family was killed...and his arms were blown off. They showed him during a rehab session on CNN or MSNBC earlier today.) But, that's a rare and tiny bit of coverage-representing so much carnage wreaked upon the Iraqis by Bush. Maybe the history books will tell the truth. But, it seems this generation of Americans will never know what has been done to these people.

I am so sad and disgusted with the human race in general...and Americans in particular!

Is this madness ever going to end?

:-(

[PennyLane]

10. KiCkKiCkKiCk

Kick......Tommy "we don't do body counts" Franks!