Pentagon tinkers with U.S. troop casualty count
“Statistics on a Pentagon Web site have been reorganized in a way that lowers the published totals of American nonfatal casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.” On Monday, the Defense Department’s website listed a total of 47,657 “nonmortal casualties” in Iraq. But on Tuesday, the same page simply listed 31,493 — the total for “medical air transported,” which excludes minor injuries and mental illnesses. Paul Sullivan of Veterans for America “said the changes actually meant the Pentagon was trying to conceal the rising toll of injuries and illness.”
Think Progress
Well, if changing casualty data helps us send the 'right message' to the terrorists and makes the warmongerers in the U.S. happy, that's the important thing.
Fucking bloodsucking lowlifes!
