truck blast wounds two soldiers in Iraq

[DeaconBlues]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military truck outside Baghdad on Friday, wounding two U.S. soldiers, the military said, while an Iraqi woman died as another blast hit the office of a major Shiite party.

Capt. Tammy Galloway of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division said a homemade explosive device exploded on the roadside as a military truck was passing. Iraqi witnesses said earlier that it was an oil tanker and that two soldiers were killed in the blast.


The predawn attack on the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution Party office, which also wounded five others, came a day after Shiites buried a senior politician assassinated Wednesday as he left his home in Baghdad.... (more)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20031219/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[acmavm]

1. Something I've been very curious about for a long time. Do all the

troops who have been wounded (except maybe two or three that I've read about) recover from their wounds and injuries? I mean, I've always found it remarkable and UNBELIEVABLY lucky that we've only been told about a couple that have "subsequently" died of injuries received in any incident in Iraq. So, does this mean that they survive their injuries? Or am I just an unpatriotic sceptic?

[DeaconBlues]

2. I doubt that the soldiers who manage to survive a while before dying

in a hospital in Germany or the States are added to the list of killed in action. It will probably be years before we know the true cost of this horrible war.