How do you classify this one General Petraeus? War dead or simply a good disposal method through incineration?
Evidently, the 'body count' can be watered down depending on whether, under an artificial classificiation system, someone was killed as a 'street crime' vs a war statistic.
This is unbelievable. Talk about corruption. I am wondering, does a Sunni shot in the head or a Baathist or a Kurd or a Shi'ite count differently than say a Pro-Surge Iraqi Police or a Non-Pro-Surge Iraqi Police? Now, in Iraq, one death is less important than another. Let's open up gas chambers and call it a day, huh?
...The soldiers have a manual telling them what to look for. Signs of torture or a single shot to the head, corpses left in a "known body dump" -- as the body of the Sunni man found on Sept. 3 was -- spell sectarian violence, said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dan Macomber, the team leader. Macomber, who has been at his job in Baghdad since February, rarely has to look it up anymore....
What I find most outrageous about all this is that General Petraeus has the audacity to 'classify' deaths at all. He touts there is less sectarian violence while stacking up the statics as a street crime.
Does he ever stop to realize this classification is unimportant and can be manipulated by those that are doing the killing? Petraeus and Bush state one cannot set a date for withdrawal otherwise it will embolden the enemy and entrench a poor outcome for post USA troops withdrawal.
YET.
These same two men will allow a 'classification' system to be manipulated by 'the street' in the way bodies are presented to morgues and counted to justify the Petraeus recommendations. That is amazing. What makes these two men believe, so called insurgents, that undermine every defensive measure of the USA military, capable of inventing IEDs are any less capable of manipulating the way bodies are presented to 'statistians?'
This is about the most stupid manipulation of a battlefield I have ever seen. I guess it justifies the 'Iraq budget process' in assigning more police vs more Iraq military, which no one will come forward to enlist anyway.
When is IRAQ going to have a MILITARY SERVICE DRAFT?
