Re: Is that they call discriminate fire? Yes, actually...

Tarver Engineering wrote:
> "Vince Brannigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Tarver Engineering wrote:
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> > > "Vince Brannigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > <snip>
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> > > > So according to Tarver when a senior governemtn official tells Reuters
> > > > something, and reuters reports what that government official says
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> > > Reuters is in Iraq and can report what they see.
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> > nonsense Reuters interviewed a seniro government official. no reporter
> > has claimed to have seen, nuch less counted any bodies in the field.
> > the bodhy count came directly formt he US government
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> > Whether it was inflated is the issue , but not its source
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> I'm not buying it, Vince.
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> The NY Times is well known for making up the news, so they don't help you.

U.S. starts to report on enemy casualties

By Patrick J. McDonnell
Los Angeles Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The enemy body count is back. Sort of.

U.S. military officials, in their regular news briefings in Iraq, have 
quietly begun reporting on enemy "KIA," or killed in action, after 
months of declining to detail the other side's losses.

The Army had long resisted inclusion of such figures, in part fearing 
comparison to Vietnam War days, when enemy casualties always seemed to 
dwarf U.S. losses even as the war was going badly. Inflated body counts 
eventually became emblematic of a Pentagon spin operation unable to mask 
the bad news in Southeast Asia.

But the steady drumbeat of U.S. casualties in Iraq — November was the 
deadliest month with 111 members of the U.S.-led coalition killed, 
including 79 Americans — has apparently contributed to a shift in 
approach. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the Army's deputy director for 
operations in Iraq, signaled the shift in policy a few weeks ago when he 
began regularly providing enemy KIA totals. The numbers typically 
amounted to a handful or fewer killed per engagement, but on a few 
occasions as many as half a dozen or more were said to have been cut 
down in confrontations with U.S. forces. Most perish in combat uncovered 
by the media.

Vince