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Title: NYT: Pentagon altered Iraq casualty figures on website
Post by: 240 is Back on February 04, 2007, 01:15:52 AM

The New York Times reported today that the Pentagon has altered how nonfatal casualties are tallied on its website, thus resulting in lower casualty totals.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/NYT_Pentagon_altered_casualty_figures_on_0202.html

Title: Re: NYT: Pentagon altered Iraq casualty figures on website
Post by: Dos Equis on February 04, 2007, 10:56:13 AM

Makes sense to me.

Title: Re: NYT: Pentagon altered Iraq casualty figures on website
Post by: ribonucleic on February 04, 2007, 12:01:51 PM

Remember that the PTSD suicides back home aren't counted. And of course our paid mercenaries don't get included in the total either.

Now that the insurgency [these are some death throes they're in!] has figured out how to shoot down our helicopters, maybe the Pentagon will decide that dying in the air doesn't technically count as dying "in Iraq".