US military lying, they do keep track of Iraq casualities

[jfern]

Recent article citing about 100,000 Iraqis dead.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1340688,00.html

US does keep track of casulaties.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=577793

Taken from this diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/1/14036/2117

Let's get this into the Monday news.

[nosmokes]

1. the pentagon lives and breathes numbers,

and while i certainly have no proof, to think they have no figures on casualties is, well, un*thinkable. i'm confident there is an entire department devoted to the number of civilians killed in conflict and that it's studied from as many angles as carter has pills.

[DELUSIONAL]

2. First lesson -- the military always lies

count on the military to lie about practically everything. This is the nature of the military. I learned this fact in the 5th grade -- when a group of us military kids had a meeting on the playground about a major lie we discovered that adults (gasp) were telling. Adults telling deliberate lies - yes all the time. Every so often the military will tell the truth -- just to keep us all confused.

As for keeping track of "kills" -- this is very old business for the US military. I've transcribed troop reports of kill reports of Indians (1800s era) -- sometimes the kill numbers and accounts of an "Indian War" were part fantasy and part stories of frightened kids.