Harry Reid: “We are focused today, and certainly I support the Senator in doing so, on the soldiers who are dead. As the Senator…”

“We are focused today, and certainly I support the Senator in doing so, on the soldiers who are dead. As the Senator indicated, it is now 999. The one thing we do not focus on is this war is different than any war we have ever had. The ratio of deaths to casualties is much different. The casualties in this war--those people being wounded--are very severe although they have the use of body armor and other protections included in most of the vehicles. We have many severe burns, people being blinded, paralyzed, losing limbs. These are people who are nameless, hundreds and hundreds, into the thousands now, of people who have been severely wounded, not wounded but severely wounded. I wish there were some way we could recognize the suffering that is going on.”