* Originally in: POL_INC


One third of all returning U.S. veterans have mental problems.

For every U.S. serviceman or Woman kiled in Iraq there are 14
wounded or maimed for life.
Of those wounded most are the result of traumatic brain injury from IEDs.

Of those suffering from IED induced traumatic brain injury
about one third will be slammed into nursing homkes and hospices
essentially vegetables with no chances for anything clse to what
any rational person would consider a life ( thuink Terri Schiavo)

Basically the autonomous nervous system at the top of the brain stem
keeps them breathing and their heart beating but they will lack 
mental capacity.

So if you accept a figure of 3,000 American combat deaths x 14
you get 42,000.
Then,  the majority 51 percent per the pentagon wounded by IED,
that could be as little as 51 percent gives just under 21,000 

Now taking the Pentagon figure of 1/3 of those being essentially
living human vegitables you arrive at   7,000 human vegetables
the U.S. is responsible for taking care of with all attendent medical
procedures and housing costs for as long as they each should live.

This could add up to quite a tidy sum for the U.S taxpayers don't
you think folks?

This for a war that sought to eliminate non-existent WMD
that posed no threat to America or Americans.

Think about it.
This public service message brought to you by Wayne Chirnside
using what publicly available Pentagon statistics to arrive
at the above conservative figures.

These figures do not take into account the cooked 
American casualty count.
The American civilian contracted dead.
Nor any non-American casualties of this war.
ITMT Osama bin Laden and the Antrax terrorists both remain free and at large.

Now the Republicans sold themselves as the party to protect and to keep 
us all safe.
Seems to be a bit of a problem with that.
Also just a bit of a problem with conservative fiscal financial
responsibility as regards to the national debt.




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