US Military Revives Body Counts to Show Success in Iraq
Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the US military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations. The revival of body counts, a practice discredited during the Vietnam War, has apparently come without formal guidance from the Pentagon's leadership.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102405C.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102405C.shtml
Starmail - 25. Okt, 15:34