[Lysander]

So is it just me or does this come off as a total fraud?

Hard to say, but I can add that I know a pilot that is flying 45 wounded out each trip he makes to Germany. That is one day's supply of injured. He says it is not just lttle cuts, but wounds and missing body parts.His comment was that we are not getting any truth over here about the price we are paying in life and limb. The death toll is low, not becuase of low frequency of getting shot at, but because of good care for those injured.

[dogbyte12]

There were a spate of stories about a month ago about the wounded, but they lasted about 3 days and then vanished. At one point, Walter Reed was runing out of beds, and actually renting hotel rooms across from the hospital to use as patient rooms for Iraq war wounded.

We are getting very good at saving lifes that would have been lost a long time ago. When you see that 1,2 or 3 people died in a day, that might also mean that 10 were gravely injured, and heroically saved. They may be missing legs, arms, their ability to walk.

War is hell.