From: Phil Payne 

> You could have done better than that: as I was driving to work today CBS
> Radio News mentioned that the accounting of civilians deaths would be
> stopped, with the complicity of the Iraqi Governing Council.

The Pentagon has long said it doesn't count (and therefore doesn't care
about) civilian casualties.  Others do, quite obviously, but the statistics
are more than a little embarrassing - especially when it turns out that
American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are killing more civilians than
Saddam and the Taliban combined.

So it's no great surprise that this source of data at least is being
suppressed.  Like everything else this administration is doing, it's
borrowing against the future.  Chile now has a good idea how many
"disappeared", and a future Iraqi regime will put together a good
picture too.

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