] MARK BENJAMIN: Well, with respect to the wounded, the
] Pentagon does report a number that it says is the number
] of soldiers that are wounded in the war. I think we're
] running around 7,000 or 8,000 in Iraq. But what that
] number does not include is the number of soldiers who are
] wounded or ill, or injured in operations that are not
] directly due to the bullets and bombs of the insurgents.
] So, for example, as of mid-September, if you take
] actually Afghanistan and Iraq together, there were 17,000
] soldiers who were injured or ill enough to be put on
] airplanes and flown out of theater, and none of those
] casualties, and I call them casualties because they fit
] the Pentagon's definition of casualties, none of those
] casualties appear on any public casualty lists.

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