IEDs kill 21,000 Iraqi civilians 2005-2010
• USA TodayThe military has been reluctant to release civilian deaths in part because the figures are imprecise estimates, said Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman. It's difficult, he said, to discern civilians from insurgents after a bomb explodes.
Col. Lapan slyly expresses the very real and hard Yankee military position, ie. 'Kill'em all and let God sort'em out'