{"id":308,"date":"2007-03-12T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-03-12T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T14:24:05","slug":"how-many-have-been-wounded-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"How many have been wounded in Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard Jim Webb on <u>This Week<\/u> yesterday, and in the middle of the interview he talked briefly about how many soldiers have been wounded in Iraq. I uploaded the clip, and you can see it below. It includes a snippet from Bob Woodruff&#8217;s special on wounded soldiers.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2r9Xx5w-QyI\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo, Paul Sullivan says over 200,000 wounded. Webb says the VA currently has a backlog of 400,000 applications. How many soldiers have actually been wounded in Iraq? I&#8217;ve heard rumors about this for years, but these are the first sources I&#8217;ve found in anything like major media.<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s true, no wonder <a href=\"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/mark_shields_on.html\">the military medical system is breaking down<\/a>.<br \/>\n<small><b>Edited<\/b> to correct Sullivan&#8217;s number.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard Jim Webb on This Week yesterday, and in the middle of the interview he talked briefly about how many soldiers have been wounded in Iraq. I uploaded the clip, and you can see it below. It includes a snippet from Bob Woodruff&#8217;s special on wounded soldiers. So, Paul Sullivan says over 200,000 wounded. Webb says the VA currently has a backlog of 400,000 applications. How many soldiers have actually been wounded in Iraq? I&#8217;ve heard rumors about this for years, but these are the first sources I&#8217;ve found in anything like major media. If it&#8217;s true, no wonder <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=308\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-4Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}