More proof we are winning in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

A badly wounded Iraqi girl receives medical treatment at a hospital in Fallujah. At least 44 people were killed as US forces continued their relentless strikes against targets allegedly connected to Al-Qaeda-linked extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi near Fallujah.(AFP/Fares Dlimi)

A wounded Iraqi boy lies in his hospital bed in Fallujah after several overnight air raids hit his village of Zoba. US forces launched an overnight onslaught against the network of extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.(AFP/Fares Dlimi)

A man who lost several family members during a U.S. airstrike, sits near the graves after burying them at Qurush, near Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Sept. 17, 2004. U.S. forces launched attacks late Thursday night and early Friday morning in the Sunni insurgent strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, killing up to 60 insurgents in strikes against allies of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a military statement said. Dr. Ali Awad of the Fallujah General Hospital said 30 people were killed and more than 40 were injured, including women and children. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

[flamingpie2500]

1. I heard recently that the Pentagon doesn't keep track of Iraq civilian

casualites. Is this something new or has it always been the case?

[truthspeaker]

4. Been that way for a while. Reaction to the flak they took in VN

for "body counts".

[Darranar]

5. From the beginning, they did not. n/t

[ihaveaquestion]

6. There was a flap in the 60's - 70's

about the "body-count" they used in Vietnam to keep track of how well they did in each encounter. This caused a couple of obvious problems - that soldiers would inflate the numbers artificially or, worse, that they'd kill innocent civilians to inflate the numbers.

I think the military decided to stop keeping track after that.

[supercrash]

2. WOW....

That guy in the bottom picture has every right to come to the USA and slaughter Americans

We WILL reap what we sow

[joshdawg]

3. I find it interesting that these armed types are called

militants or insurgents. In the past wars, people fighting against an invader were called "partisans." The French were partisans. The Poles were partisans. The Greeks were partisans. Now, Iraqis are "militants" or "insurgents" or "terrorists." Curious.