Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. november 2003 / Timeline November 14, 2003
Version 3.513. November 2003, 15. November 2003
11/14/2003
15 ægyptiske parlamentsmedlemmer har unddraget sigg
militærtjeneste, noterer Information.
11/14/2003
Udgifterne til de danske soldater i Irak sprænger forsvarets
ramme(bevilling) til internationale udgifter. Missioner koster mere
end forventet, skriver Berlingske Tidende.
11/14/2003
The hidden cost of Bush's war
Sgt Meinen, of the 43rd Combat Engineer Company, 3rd Armoured
Cavalry Regiment, is among thousands of wounded soldiers who have
returned from Iraq to uncertain futures, months of difficult and
often painful treatment and an American public largely unaware that
so many troops are being injured every day. The reality is that,
just as Iraqi hospitals struggled to deal with the number of
wounded civilians during the invasion of the country, so military
hospitals in the US are now overflowing with wounded Americans.
Advances in body armour and battlefield medicine mean that an
increasing number of soldiers such as Sgt Meinen are surviving
injuries that even just a decade ago would have killed them. As a
result, while the Bush administration is able to point to a
relatively modest number of US fatalities in Iraq yesterday the
total stood at 396 there is a huge number of severely wounded
soldiers whose injuries and fate go largely unreported. Mr Bush has
ordered that the media should not be allowed to photograph coffins
containing the bodies of those killed in Iraq, and the return of
injured US troops also goes largely unpublicised. This is no
coincidence. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont told the Senate last
month: "The wounded are brought back after midnight, making sure
the press does not see the planes coming in with the wounded",
writes the Independent.
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