We do body counts now, apparently

In regard to this, this, and this, I found myself wondering, when did we start doing body counts, exactly?

Remember Tommy Franks saying, "We don't do body counts"?

So when did we start?

Well, apparently we started in 2005, but I happened to have missed it:

Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the U.S. military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations.

The revival of body counts, a practice discredited during the Vietnam War, has apparently come without formal guidance from the Pentagon's leadership. Military spokesmen in Washington and Baghdad said they knew of no written directive detailing the circumstances under which such figures should be released or the steps that should be taken to ensure accuracy.

Maybe that's why Petreaus is not releasing the methodology used to calculate the drop in violence being attributed the surge, a drop in violence that is being measured in terms of the existential arithmatic of number of Iraqi lives lost. Because it would show how the military actually has calculated civilian casualties since 2005.

But since the military is apparently tracking these things now, and have been for about two years, here's the question I would like to see some brave soul ask the general in his testimony:

In the two years that the military has been keeping track, exactly how many civilian deaths have occurred in Iraq?

It also sounds like a pretty good question for Republican candidates in the youtube debate. Suppose any of them could answer it? Or care?