Sunday, January 08, 2006
Sickening Statistics
Here's the round-up of this week's sickening statistics:
--A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.
Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor - New York Times
--Over 200 were killed in Iraq over the past two days
--11 U.S. soldiers were killed on Saturday, and an additional 5 U.S. soldiers were slain today
--A Blackhawk helicopter was shot down today, killing all 12 aboard
--The real cost to America of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion, up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert
--A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.
Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor - New York Times
--Over 200 were killed in Iraq over the past two days
--11 U.S. soldiers were killed on Saturday, and an additional 5 U.S. soldiers were slain today
--A Blackhawk helicopter was shot down today, killing all 12 aboard
--The real cost to America of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion, up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert
