As Josh wrote on TPM, getting an apples-to-apples comparison of Iraqi civilian casualties statistics — an all-important metric to determine the success of General Petraeus’ “population protection” strategy — over the course of the past year is something of a murky endeavor. One of the most credible Iraq-casualties tabulations, crunched by the United Nations, was lost this year after the Iraqi government, embarrassed by the high reported death toll, refused the U.N. access to Health Ministry statistics.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179971