From a reader
I have some interesting circumstantial evidence in support of the theory that the military is concealing the total number of deaths.
See this page:
http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm
On it, there's a link to an absolutely remarkable document:
http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/Death_Rates.pdf
It lists ALL military deaths, and says how they happened--combat, terrorism (the Beirut marine barracks bombing, for example), homicide, suicide, etc.
But it stops in 2002.
Then, from 2003 on, we only get lists of how many people died in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. No more total deaths.
Huh! I guess the military has stopped all suicides, homicides, and accidental deaths!
Or, possibly, that they don't want us to know that, despite there being only about 1,800 dead listed from OIF, the actual death rate for the military has suddenly, mysteriously spiked by almost 5,000 per year since the war began. By sheer coincidence. Really.
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