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600 casualties?

Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update


Why are these numbers getting played around with? These are American children dying. They have loved ones. I'm not convinced they'd want their loved ones memory used and perverted like this.

They died. Report it. Don't play chicanery with numbers if you want to be trusted.

What is the purpose in parsing these number in the way they did?
 

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600 casualties?

Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update


Why are these numbers getting played around with? These are American children dying. They have loved ones. I'm not convinced they'd want their loved ones memory used and perverted like this.

They died. Report it. Don't play chicanery with numbers if you want to be trusted.

What is the purpose in parsing these number in the way they did?
According to your article there were only 14 deaths
 
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600 casualties?

Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update


Why are these numbers getting played around with? These are American children dying. They have loved ones. I'm not convinced they'd want their loved ones memory used and perverted like this.

They died. Report it. Don't play chicanery with numbers if you want to be trusted.

What is the purpose in parsing these number in the way they did?
Casuality is every soldier that is wounded in a way that takes him out of combat duty, not just dead people.
 
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Casuality is every soldier that is wounded in a way that takes him out of combat duty, not just dead people.
For example, Putin's racked up 1.4 Million casualties in the last 4.5 years. How many of those are dead, we don't quite know, but you'll need a 6 digit number to write it out.
 
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I’m just going by the article that was posted
The article also says:

These figures have been a point of contention after the Pentagon previously reduced the totals from 18 deaths and 482 wounded that had been recorded just days earlier.

The shift became apparent earlier this week when the Pentagon’s official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war did not include the four soldiers who died during renewed fighting over the weekend.
 
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