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Veterans for Common Sense receives several e-mails each week asking us for the latest Iraq and Afghanistan war casualty statistics from the Department of Defense.
As recently as July 2, 2007, the media continued to incorrectly report casualty statistics as less than 30,000.
The under-reporting is intentional, as the Pentagon misleads us about the human costs in order to maintain the dwindling Congressional and public support for the lost Iraq War fiasco.
The military misleads the press, public, and Congress by narrowly defining casualties as only those "wounded" while excluding our injured and ill.
The true facts reveal the number of battlefield casualties, defined as "killed, wounded, injured, or ill," from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars escalated to 65,278, as of June 30, 2007, according to official documents obtained by Veterans for Common Sense from the Department of Defense (DoD) using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
VCS totaled the two separate DoD reports into a complete casualty report, showing the total number of combat zone casualties for both wars is now 65,278.
VCS posted the two original DoD reports at our web site for Iraq War casualties and for Afghanistan War casualties.
In the month of June 2007, the U.S. suffered an additional 1,664 casualties - killed, wounded, injured, and ill. That averages more than 55 new casualties every day last month. That's devastating.
Please share these cold, hard facts with your friends, neighbors, and reporters. When you meet with your U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators during their summer vacations, please provide them a copy of our VCS report so they know the facts about the brutal consequences of the two wars.
When it comes to the facts about these two wars, VCS leads the way informing the public, the press, and the Congress.
VCS believes that good government policies begin in the reality based world using facts, not in the pretend world of fear, lies, and incomplete casualty reports issued by the military.
VCS hopes you had a nice Independence Day. Please spread the good word about VCS to your friends and ask them to subscribe to our growing mailing list.
Sincerley,
Paul Sullivan
Executive Director
Veterans for Common Sense | 
