Reply #151: When the claim was made that the death rate

[truedelphi]

was five times as high -- was that stated as fact or speculation?
<<the claim that I recently saw here on DU that the actual number of US KIA in Iraq is really 15,000)
My understanding of the concern surrounding an *idea* that there have been fifteen thousand service men and women killed in Iraq is that *supposedly* a severely injured seviceperson is quickly shipped out of Iraq and into Germany where if they survive a week and then die, it is not reported.

I don't know of any information that supports this - it would seem that by now at least one angry family would be making a stink. BUt of course, if a family member is wounded in Iraq and then dies in Germany, would that family even know if the death is reported or not?

However the CNN website that listed all the deaths occurring in Iraq (and coaliton people were listed as well as AMericans) seemed to detail many deaths wherein someone was alive for a short while in Germany but then succumbed.