How does the military calculate deaths in Iraq?
According to Aljazeera Magazine, “In the on-going vicious occupation of Iraq, the American and British are seemingly meticulous about reporting their own casualties – as opposed to Iraqi casualties, whom they refuse to count, despite obliged under international law to do so. “As of 13th May 2006, the U.S. military states its casualties as 2,436 deaths of US soldiers and 17,648 injured. These very precise figures are updated daily. The problem with these statistics is that they are misleading and wrong and deliberately so. To arrive at these figures, the following deaths and casualties are excluded: • Soldiers killed or injured in any other way other than a direct bullet or bomb. In other words, if a pilot or driver crashes because he had to evade a missile or bomb, it would not be counted as a death. • The dying and critically wounded are listed as en route to military hospitals outside of the country and not reported on the daily postings. This means a soldier who was shot and/or woun
We are as meticulous about keeping track of people as was the Germans of WW II. Can you just imagine the outcry if there were a huge deficit between what the AP shoves down your throats and what the Pentagon is releasing? And then to have puppet mouth pieces like Al Jazeera “News” Magazine quotes… Just goes to show how far sedition really gets around. They REALLY do pay attention to what we say and do, even here in Answers. So, let’s play with the numbers for a brief moment. Last week’s numbers of 3015. Over a 3 year period, comes out to 1005. Over a 12 month period, is 6.97917. Averraging 4 weeks per month, 1.74479 men lost per week. Contrast those to WW II when we were fighting a well organized, easily recognizable , uniformed military — unlike the civilian clad, hide behind women and children “Insurgents” (AKA Terrorists) and you get an entirely different perspective than what the AP is putting out. Gen. Patton drove the U.S. 3d Army across France after the D-Day invasion in June
