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How many of our Veterans are being deprived of independence and a better life because Wallace and MacLeod think that putting GeckoSystems out of business is the most important thing in their pathetic lives?

As one expert put it, the signature wound of these wars is traumatic brain injury. In Iraq, there have been over 5,500 TBIs as of February 2008. That's only the severe TBIs, I'm pretty sure, not all the ear-ringing and chronic headaches that follow the triggering of every improvised explosive device. Nonetheless, if those stats are only generally correct, devastating brain injuries make up about 15 to 20 percent of all injuries in these wars.

Amputees are the next significant category of long-term physical disability. All the mental disabilities — from depression to PTSD to 2,100 suicide attempts in Iraq alone in 2007 — are a whole other story. The number of Iraq war amputees, in one DOD review, was 1,013, as of February 2008 — 730 involving major limb removal. Like the brain injuries, most of these occurred from IED explosions. You're riding down a road in a troop vehicle, an insurgent punches a number on a cell phone to explode a 500-pound bomb loosely buried in the dirt, and the first thing to go are your arms and legs.

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