Friday, September 15, 2006

Figures Don't Lie But Liars Figure

U.S. excluded car, suicide bombs from Iraq murder tollThe U.S. military did not count people killed by bombs, mortars, rockets or other mass attacks when it reported a dramatic drop in the number of murders in the Baghdad area last month, the U.S. command said Monday.
This is akin to another little known math trick used by the DOD. Say a soldier is wounded and placed on a plane headed to a hospital in Germany (Landstuhl to be exact). If the soldier dies in the air or at hospital is he counted in the casualty rate for Iraq? Not so, he died in the air or in Germany, isn't that obvious. Why should he be counted in the casualty totals for the war? To do otherwise would unfairly paint the war in Iraq as a failure.

Anyone that had trouble with that math problem really needs to get with the program and learn Newspeak.

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