Originally Posted by: scarface84[U]From CBS[/U]
"For a few months this year, the Iraqi provisional government published figures obtained by counting bodies arriving at hospitals. Its total was 3,853 civilians killed between April and November. Again, that is necessarily an underestimate, since many of those who are killed or die never reach a hospital."

I don't think that's really reliable sources of information, nor can you draw conclusions from it. I know for a fact that when a car bomb goes off the locals frequently blame the troops, thus I'm sure those #'s are included. And our military today stikes with surgical precision most of the time (undoubtedly the best in the world). It's not like they're sweeping the crowds with M60's. And to further my point...CBS already showed it's journalistic integrity with the whole Bush AWOL memo forgeries.