COVER UP OR INCOMPETENCE?

That may seem cynical but that's a reasonable question about the criminal Bush regime. Several former officials, such as John Dilulio and Paul O'Neill, have told us that politics precedes and dominates policy decisions and the Bush regime had made a practice of putting incompetent people in Federal positions. In this specific area, we've come across the regime's indifference to our soldiers before with Rumsfeld and with the Walter Reed scandal.

20,000 vets' brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tally
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
11/23/2007

At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY.

The data, provided by the Army, Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, show that about five times as many troops sustained brain trauma as the 4,471 officially listed by the Pentagon through Sept. 30. These cases also are not reflected in the Pentagon's official tally of wounded, which stands at 30,327.

Soldiers and Marines whose wounds were discovered after they left Iraq are not added to the official casualty list, says Army Col. Robert Labutta, a neurologist and brain injury consultant for the Pentagon.
"We are working to do a better job of reflecting accurate data in the official casualty table," Labutta says.