US casualties in Iraq number in the thousands, but that's classified so you'll never find out the truth: "Trying to ascertain totals of U.S. wounded in Iraq is a much more difficult task. According to report in the Guardian, the Pentagon puts the number of wounded at 827 but reporter Julian Borger claims that 'unofficial figures are in the thousands.' Central Command in Qatar claims 926 wounded, but 'that too is understated,' Borger writes. Lieutenant-Colonel Allen DeLane, who is in charge of the airlift of the wounded into Andrews air base, recently told National Public Radio that 'Since the war has started, I can't give you an exact number because that's classified information, but I can say to you over 4,000 have stayed here at Andrews, and that number doubles when you count the people that come here to Andrews and then we send them to other places like Walter Reed and Bethesda, which are in this area also.'
Regarding U.S. casualties, the president said that Americans 'suffer when we lose life,' and that the country 'grieves with those who sacrifice.'
A report issued August 7th by the Iraq Body Count (IBC) claims that nearly 20,000 civilians have been wounded in the Iraq war. 'The maimed civilians of Iraq have been brushed under the carpet,' the IBC report said. According to IBC, there have been close to 7,800 deaths since the beginning of the U.S. invasion. In this new report, derived from data gathered from over 300 published reports, the IBC claims that 'three times as many injuries as deaths have been reported.' "
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