anysia | Talk about spinning statistics to make things sound rosy (Reply)

US exluded car, suicide bombs from Iraq murder toll

This little piece of the statistical spinning really has me pissed off.

Under the military definition, murders include civilians killed "who are specifically targeted," but do not include executions or "those killed in indirect fire, IED, VBIED, or suicide attacks, all of which may or may not be related to sectarian violence."
Executions, as defined by the U.S. military, include people who have been held,tortured and then killed and are considered to be motivated by ethnic or sectarian reasons -- unless they are some form of reprisal killingor related to crime.

These people were murdered, EOS. If you kill someone in the commission of a crime, then you are held responsible for murder.