Monday, September 8, 2008

Trail of Evidence Points to High Civilian Toll in Afghan Raid

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/world/asia/08afghan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=trail%20of%20evidence&st=cse&oref=slogin
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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Subject: Trail of Evidence Points to High Civilian Toll in Afghan Raid
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
 The U.S. military made a policy of overcounting enemy dead
throughout the Vietnam conflict. Doing so, it managed to prolong the
death and destruction there for years. Now it has been caught
undercounting the civilian deaths in Afghanistan. If senator McCain
means to claim our "success" in Iraq as a reason to vote for him, he
will need to first find a credible witness to that "success". It's not
the U.S. military, nor is it the captive embedded press corp on the
military's leash.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Ave
Lafayette, CA 94549

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