Nine Thousand (9,000) Dead?

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U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted.
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only soldiers actually killed on the ground in Iraq are reported. The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported
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Bush personally ordered that no pictures be taken of the coffined and flag-draped dead under any circumstances
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Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany
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already seen over 24,000 wounded
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