U.S. count of Baghdad deaths excludes car bombs, mortar attacks

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Last week the pentagon announced budgeting 20 million for producing the news coming out of Iraq, here from the Huhhington Post is an example of your tax dollars being used.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials, seeking a way to measure the results of a program aimed at decreasing violence in Baghdad, aren't counting scores of dead killed in car bombings and mortar attacks as victims of the country's sectarian violence.

In a distinction previously undisclosed, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said Friday that the United States is including in its tabulations of sectarian violence only deaths of individuals killed in drive-by shootings or by torture and execution.

That has allowed U.S. officials to boast that the number of deaths from sectarian violence in Baghdad declined by more than 52 percent in August over July.
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1. They will only be counting Iraqis dead from drownings soon n/t

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2. We have become what we initially feared.

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3. 20 million to render their data useless.

Now there's a real waste of money.
Now that we know about that the numbers have been cooked on every press release, we know to disregard all of them.
Perhaps the BBC world service will inform us just as they did those trapped behind fascist lines during the 20th century.
Our media is on its knees sucking Bush d*ck.