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Dear Eat the State!,

I know that approval of the Iraq invasion is at an all-time low, yet I think it would be even lower if the press were talking about the real US casualty figures that have occurred during the invasion. There are quite a few reports that those figures have been altered by the US military by failing to include deaths and casualties of soldiers without full US citizenship, non-combat deaths, and deaths occurring in hospitals after soldiers are evacuated from Iraq.

I think if the public were to learn of this, there would be outrage, especially in immigrant communities and in the public at large. Most of all I think we all deserve to know the real numbers and if the Bush administration is altering them for PR purposes. Would you mind focusing on this issue in your reports?

Thank you!

--Noah Anderson, via e-mail

Geov Parrish notes: The Bush administration is also not counting casualties incurred by private contractors doing the work once done by soldiers. There are about 100,000 such contractors in Iraq, nearly as many people as are in the armed forces there.