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Saturday, December 10, 2005 12:00 AM

Incalculable pain

The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq, say House Democrats.

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  • Monday, December 12, 2005 03:24 PM

    number of American troops killed in Iraq war

    The Pentagon is also cheating on the number of American troops killed in the Iraq war. CNN has a complete list of dead American soildiers. Only about one percent of the dead are shown to have died in American or German hospitals. But many thousands of our troops are sent state-side or to American operated hospitals in Germany. Can only one percent of these often terribly wounded troops have died from their wounds. It seems a virtual imposiblity.

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