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November 17, 2007

Pentagon Cover Up – 15,000 or More US Deaths in Iraq War?

by @ 4:47 pm. Filed under Be Afraid, Our Glorious War Machine, Outrages, activism, general, history, homeland insecurity, war and peace

Pentagon Cover Up

15,000 or More US Deaths in Iraq War?

By MIKE WHITNEY

The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it.

CBS’s Investigative Unit wanted to do a report on the number of suicides in the military and “submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense”. After 4 months they received a document which showed–that between 1995 and 2007– there were 2,200 suicides among “active duty” soldiers.

Baloney.

RED DAVE

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26 Responses to “Pentagon Cover Up – 15,000 or More US Deaths in Iraq War?”

  1. Jim Says:

    This is a very big allegation. Do you have a source to which you can point us?

  2. Jim Says:

    Mike Whitney is writing this for Uruknet.info. But I see no direct sourcing in his article — just a call to go to CBS News and look for a video. Do you have a direct source?

  3. Jim Says:

    The CBS News story obliquely referred to by Whitney seems to be primarily about veterans committing suicide after leaving active duty.

    Red Dave, from where did you get the 15,000 figure?

  4. Reality Says:

    Red Dave are you going to answer any of Jim’s questions? Dave is your real name Dan Rather?

  5. Iroquois Says:

    It looks like either Whitney totally misunderstands the story he bases this paragraph on or he is deliberately trying to mislead.

    Curious website, though. Tries to prove Halabja didn’t happen or something like that. My Kurdish friends would be unhappy to hear that.

    Interesting that this site claims to be “opposition” from inside Iraq, that it has been inactive so long, and now has a new article posted.

  6. RED DAVE Says:

    (1) Here is the source article at Counterpunch. Sorry I omitted it.

    http://counterpunch.org/whitney11172007.html

    To Reality:

    Go back to shitstormfront where you belong.

    David

  7. Iroquois Says:

    Let me mention another thing. Last night after accessing the articles Jim links to, my computer went out to lunch and I had to do several CTRL ALT DEL sequences to run shutdown. Did the Uruknet site eat my computer? I went to Disk Cleanup and there had been 40M suddenly downloaded. Sometimes I will see half a meg after browsing a lot, or even a little over a meg if I’ve been looking at videos, but NEVER 40 Meg.

    From the DDOS attacks that IT and other sites have experienced we have found out that the al-Firdaws script kiddies–under orders from none other than ben Laden himself–use zombie computers to carry out their denial-of-service attacks. If you enter one of their sites, your computer can be infected and used to carry out these attacks without your knowledge. Why do they have a note at the bottom of their home page that tells you what operating system you are using and encourages you to try other platforms? Why are they so into what platform you have? And why do they REALLY have so many mirror sites with similar names? Could it be these are all supposed to get linked together during a DDOS attack?

    Don’t worry though, I’m sure homeland security is on the trail, as soon as they get done checking all the toothpaste at the airport.

    In the meantime, if you go visit that site, you might want to wipe your feet when you come out.

  8. Iroquois Says:

    Thanks for the link, David.

    The title is misleading. Here’s what the CBS article actually says:

    So CBS News did an investigation - asking all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records, for veterans and non-veterans, dating back to 1995.

    So it looks like they are looking at data for the whole population and veterans of all wars, not just for Iraq veterans.
    Then it says:

    It found that veterans were more than twice as likely to commit suicide in 2005 than non-vets. (Veterans committed suicide at the rate of between 18.7 to 20.8 per 100,000, compared to other Americans, who did so at the rate of 8.9 per 100,000.)

    but one of the commenters, ilewis22, says something interesting:

    …the CBS story is very flawed. They compared to numbers that have no demographic relation. The military is over 80% male and approx 60 % white, and 74% in the 18 to 30 age range. If you compare suicide rates keeping the demographics consistent the difference in suicide rates is less than .3 percent.

    So how did CBS do their study? Did they control for age, race, etc., when they compared their populations? The unclear way CBS uses statistics here is more likely to decrease concern for veterans. And the Whitney report on the study is just blatantly irresponsible.

  9. Reality Says:

    Dave, admit it, you are a lying sack of whiney ass progressive shit!! You’ve been BUSTED!! And by one of your own idiots, Iroquois at that!

  10. RED DAVE Says:

    From Unreality:
    “Reality Says:
    “Dave, admit it, you are a lying sack of whiney ass progressive shit!! You’ve been BUSTED!! And by one of your own idiots, Iroquois at that!”

    You, my enemy, are a racist dog. No, that’s a slander on dogs. You’re a racist roach. And, at that, roaches may complain that they’re associated with you.

    Here’s your homepage. Hang out there.

    http://www.stormfront.org/forum/

    David

  11. Reality Says:

    I’m not your enemy Dave. Just pointed out your lies to get headlines. You sure you aren’t Dan Rather?

  12. RED DAVE Says:

    From Reality:
    ‘I’m not your enemy Dave. Just pointed out your lies to get headlines. You sure you aren’t Dan Rather?”

    I’ll decide who my enemies are, thank you? Are you sure you’re not David Duke?

    RED DAVE

  13. Iroquois Says:

    “Reality” clearly didn’t come here to discuss current events. Not with all that name-calling and all those racial slurs. No, he came here so provoke. He’s a submissive looking for a dominant male to subjugate and humiliate him. Looks like he’s found his love match.

  14. Reality Says:

    Iroquois do you have some latent homosexual interests? Or are you an out of the closet dyke?

    Ya that name calling is really getting out of hand isn’t Iroq?
    “He just wants to prove he is a Big Bad Jerk. After all, everyone is good at something. Unfortunately he is an unimaginative, boring, mundane sort of jerk.”

    Ahhh there’s that speck in the progressive eye yet again!

    How pathetic.

  15. RED DAVE Says:

    RANTSNRAVES.ORG, Nov. 15 (Internet News Service) – The Internet announced Thursday that the compulsive online masturbator Reality would be debarred from participating in real life by a firewall that would confine him to the online world, keeping him away from actual humans.

    “Reality’s disturbing and vaguely psychotic online posts strongly suggest that he is not to be trusted in reality,” the Internet said at a news conference on Thursday morning. “With the construction of a firewall to prevent him from interacting with “real people,” Reality will continue to be restricted to the basement of his parents’ home and his desktop computer, in front of which he can whack off to his heart’s content without posing a threat to others.”

    Reality, a middle-aged loser who lives in his parents’ basement, devotes most of his empty and existentially meaningless days to spamming the Internet with racist apologetics while vigorously pulling his pud, his trousers bunched up around his ankles. His parents are brother and sister, and they taught Reality to read from magazines devoted to racism, guns, nazis and rape. Reality, because of his inbred genetic deformities, has six fingers on his left hand and drools and cums incontinently.

    “It’s fine for Reality to be online, where Iroquois, RED DAVE and others can effortlessly bitch-slap him into oblivion, but it’s not acceptable for Reality to be in reality,” the Internet explained. “He might assault a hard-working black woman, hit a gay man over the head with a beer bottle, or murder an industrious Mexican immigrant. Such behavior is not acceptable to authentic people on Planet Earth.”

    The “reality firewall,” the Internet said, will require Reality to enter a password to be admitted “across the border” from online to reality. But, since Reality will not be permitted to have a password, he will continue to be confined “south of the border,” inside the Internet, the Internet said, from which he will never be able to escape,” the Internet said.

    RED DAVE

  16. Iroquois Says:

    Don’t flirt with me, “Reality”, I don’t want Red Dave to get jealous.

  17. RED DAVE Says:

    Iroquois:

    You can have him if, for some bizarre reason you want him. Maybe he would be good for a doormat or a lawn gnome or something like that.

    RED DAVE

  18. Jim Says:

    Oooh, oooh, me, me, I know! You could put a ring in his mouth and have him stand at the end of your driveway with a lamp!

  19. RED DAVE Says:

    I GOT IT:

    Send him to the Malfoy’s as a house elf to replace Dobby.

    RED DAVE

  20. Reality Says:

    It’s so nice to see you progressives have grown up and act like mature adults.

    Maybe the reason the voters of the United States doesn’t vote for you leftist loons is for childish behaviour like this? Just a thought.

    So Dave does ZOG mean anything to you?

  21. Iroquois Says:

    Nah, my neighbors would complain. They already put up with crack houses, this would be too much to expect. Besides, Dave, look how he trots out the Jewish conspiracy theory stuff. He wants YOU to hurt him.

  22. RED DAVE Says:

    I would be glad to hurt him.

    All he has to do is send away for my patented, trade-marked GYABBYALNYJ (Get Your Ass Burned by a Lefty New York Jew) kit. It’s only $129.95 and includes no less than ten painful applications, which he rubs on his heinie.

    (But if he orders now, before Chanuakah, there’s a 10% discount. Postage and handling are $5.)

    By the way, my shih-tsu ZOG would be glad to bite him given the opportunity.

    RED DAVE

  23. Reality Says:

    Your libshit-tsu? MUWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAA :)

    Figures a jew boy pussy like you would have a heel yapper. Hmmm, just like a jew. They yap and yap and yap and then are led away to the ovens because of their cowardice.

    How appropriate huh?

  24. RED DAVE Says:

    Still waiting for your order for the GYABBYALNYJ (Get Your Ass Burned by a Lefty New York Jew) kit.

    hitler’s death day is April 30th, so there’s no hurry.

    RED DAVE

  25. RED DAVE Says:

    By the way, ZOG (real name Starr) says he is waiting to bite you when you get to New York. He only ways 15 pounds, but he can handle a nazi-boy like you.

    RED DAVE

  26. RED DAVE Says:

    I guess Reality got carpal tunnel from having to write a couple of hundred words or maybe a stroke from having to read.

    David

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