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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elroy who wrote (324807)	2/6/2007 11:41:59 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575629

"However, I don't know if I accept your opinion that a reasonably accurate body count INSIDE a supposedly "cleared and held" area is out of the question." Two problems with body counts. One, how to distinguish between those who were fighting and those who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Presence of a weapon is a good clue, but absence may not be. What is apparently a common example. There is a checkpoint and a car approaches. The driver of the car does something unexpected and, as a result, gets riddled with bullets. Do the late occupants of said vehicle count as bad guys and add to the score, or was it just another unfortunate accident? Two, when a scoring system is in place, there is pressure to inflate the numbers. That happened in Vietnam. The administration wanted signs of progress, that desire got passed down the chain of command with more and more pressure to come up with good numbers. Finally, it reaches the grunts in the field. When they call in that they were in a fire fight, they are asked The Question...