Counting those bodies

[yankeedoodle]

Any American who lived through the Vietnam War era will remember that the Pentagon was constantly being accused of inflating the number of Viet Cong and North Vietnam Army soldiers that they killed.

Well, the military in Colombia solved that problem.  Rather than inflate the number of kills, what they did was to just go out and kill a bunch of civilians, and then claim that they were members of the FARC.

Aren't they clever? 

Colombian generals facilitated civilian killings to fake guerrilla losses – HRW
http://rt.com/news/269542-farc-civilian-murder-generals/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

[Michael K.]

I think they are sent to school in Georgia, at Ft. Benning.  They have probably learned how to do accounting in Houston, however.  Like from that noble chosen accountant, Ken Lay of ENRON.