Mrs.Lucysnow
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Actually I'm claiming they don't do body counts ie the records don't exist.
If you claim they are doing body counts then there should be official records of deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan
What is confusing you?
He isn't confused but you are pretending to be naive on the issue. There are body counts for civilian deaths in Afghanistan and its a UN agency that keeps track of them:
UNAMA recorded 1,013 civilian deaths in the first six months of 2009, an increase of 24 per cent as compared to the same period in 2008. “Both anti-government elements (AGEs) and pro-government forces (PGFs) are responsible for the increase in civilian casualties,” states the report. However, more civilians are being killed by the armed opposition than by the Afghan security and international military forces, indicate the UN figures.
http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E...0A22BB5BFE041B76C125760400343AE3?OpenDocument
You have deliberately taken a quote out of context. Its not that the US doesn't do body counts they don't do ENEMY body counts. Overall body counts are done on a continuous basis by the UN:
"Indicating the number of insurgents killed has little relevance to impacting the lives of Afghans. In fact, if that were the only purpose and metric, you would likely only extend the time it takes to bring about an end to the insurgency," Smith said in an e-mail to CNN responding to a query about the change.
The issue of publishing enemy body counts has been extremely sensitive to the U.S. military since the Vietnam War when the military regularly published large enemy body counts but seemed to be failing overall to make progress in the war."
"...Smith said, "We conduct operations not aimed at killing insurgents, although in many instances that is the outcome, but to over time clear areas of insurgency and give the people a chance to reconnect with official forms of governance and to rebuild their lives, socially and economically."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/27/afghanistan.body.count/index.html