ext_173286 ([identity profile] sierra-nevada.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] yesthattom 2007-01-06 07:46 pm (UTC)

Do you have a reference for the war casualty undercount?

If true, this is the same kind of crap pulled by the people who foisted the 55-mph national speed limit on us back in the late 70's - the counting of people who died in auto accidents was changed at the same time to only include those who were dead at the scene, not dead later in a hospital as a direct result of injuries sustained in an auto accident. This, so the speed limit advocates could claim that, in addition to saving fuel, fewer people died in auto accidents!

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