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Is this how the US is keeping casualty numbers down?

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28. But why so SOME soldiers who go into a combat zone and acquire an illness and then come home and die from that illness get put on the list of war casualties, while others do not make that same list? I have given several examples of each in this thread where some were counted and others were not. Who is making these arbitrary decisions? Could this be a case where figures don't lie, but liars sure do figure?

I just noticed something. They were counting those who died from illness in 2003, but in 2005 they are not counting them. I wonder when they decided to stop counting them? I can't find any info for 2004. I suspect they stopped counting them during 2003 to keep the casualty numbers down. Anyone else notice that? I wonder what the real casualty numbers are now?

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