One of the factoids that came out of the Iraq Study Group was that incidents of violence were being systematically under-reported by the Pentagon. Specifically that only violent acts that caused casualties were being reported. So an IED that went off where nobody was hurt... doesn't count. They took one day as an example and where the Pentagon reported 73 acts of violence, there were really 1,100 reported incidents of actual violence. The situation is obviously far far worse than we have been led to believe, and that's even after the official version, which was awful already.
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