Human tragedies take toll on medics
The 50-year-old (Landstuhl Regional) medical centre (Germany) is where the U.S. military's sick and seriously wounded from Iraq are treated after being patched up on the battlefield.
Prior to the Iraq war, the hospital received no more than 10 injured U.S. soldiers a year from conflicts. Now, it usually handles between 30 and 55 a day from Iraq and Afghanistan alone.
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March, 2003, almost 16,000 wounded, injured or sick soldiers from the conflict have been evacuated to Landstuhl.
story thanks, joerg
~Hey we get to vote for a guy who acknowledges that there's a problem in Iraq, and who might...no promises made, we can't really be sure.. do something as quickly as possible to put an end to this on-going carnage. As opposed to Little Lord Sunshine and his motley crew of chicken hawk/cold war warriors who act as if death and injury are a normal part of doing business. (In the past I've wasted my vote on less important stuff.)