US Troops Wounded in Iraq Getting Little Care from Army, Little Coverage from the Media: "many wounded veterans from Iraq, under care at places such as the Fort Stewart military base in Georgia, must wait 'weeks and months for proper medical help' and are being kept in living conditions that are 'unacceptable for sick and injured soldiers.' One officer was quoted as saying, 'They're being treated like dogs.' The Army has said it is attempting to remedy the situation.
In The New Republic, Kaplan reported on the state of many injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. According to Kaplan, modern medicine and rapid response techniques allow many wounded soldiers to survive injuries that would have killed them in previous wars. Many of these wounded soldiers are left with debilitating injury or loss of limb. Newspapers that only track hostile combat deaths fail to capture the human toll of thousands of troops left injured and crippled, he wrote."
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