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2007-01-17 Iraq

34,452 Iraq Civilians Said Killed in '06

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 FOX + CNN > WH reportedly will anounce its gener disbelief in the number of 34, 452.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-17 03:40|| 2007-01-17 03:40|| Front Page Top

#2 WOT > about inducing = forcing anti-US OWG + National-Global Socialism on America. America must "fail" no matter what it does, no matter even iff it actually is winning or victorious. The burden is on the USA to save and justify every -ISM before surrendering andor being destroyed by same.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-17 03:47|| 2007-01-17 03:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee, only 34,452? What about the 600,000 dead claimed by the 'study'. Why wasn't Johns-Hopkins asked to comment on the UN report?

Hey, UN! How many killed in Darfur, again?

Posted by Bobby 2007-01-17 05:57|| 2007-01-17 05:57|| Front Page Top

#4 We tried to take the high road and we got screwed for it. I hope this will be the topic of West Point classes for years to come. Maybe they could bring in some Ethiopian instructors or something.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-17 06:18|| 2007-01-17 06:18|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Along the same lines, CNN ran a story this AM about how Congress is mifed that there's not sufficient 'accountability' for the funds that are disbursed to Iraqi families when someone dies under circumstances that could be ascribed to US military action. The way it works is that the local US commander hears the case, comes up with a number, and authorizes disbursement of funds.
Sen. Leahy says there must be 'better record keeping' - translation: we want a civilian body count that we can beat the Administration over the head with.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-17 08:11|| 2007-01-17 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 I call BULLSHIT. This would be apx. 2900/month or almost 100/day, which is most definitely NOT the average.

Posted by Brett 2007-01-17 12:44|| 2007-01-17 12:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect that the UN's source, the Health Ministry and various regional offshoots, counted dead insurgents as "civilians."

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-01-17 15:25|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2007-01-17 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 One of the problems tallying the number of deaths is that there is a large overlap between "insurgents" and simple criminals (this was also true in WWII). The number of criminal murders in Iraq can easily explain the discrepency in the two estimates.

By the way, when the Lancet estimated that 600,000 Iraqis had died, Strategy Page showed that 550,000 Iraqis had died from natural causes.

This is how you get wildly inflated casualties. You just fudge on the cause of death and compare apples to oranges.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-01-17 16:57|| 2007-01-17 16:57|| Front Page Top

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