 thisnamecantbetaken says: If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck then by golly, quack, quack. "We don't do body counts" - General Tommy Franks We are the good guys, right?Not this time, I'm afraid. Reminds me of M. Albright reply to the question: Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it. This just demostrates the kind of people in power. Oh an a side note, Albrights dad was a good friend of communist Stalin. I wonder why thats important?  Wow. I guess if it's in writing on the internet, it must be true. Mularky ! The deathtoll of all Iraqi's (military, police and civilian) is closer to 79,000. Still a tragic number, but not 1,000,000. Get real! See http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ Think again: "As the cornerstone of its work, IBC (iraqbodycount.org) counts only Iraq civilian deaths that are reported in newspapers or on television. In a nation ravaged daily by violence, it seems unlikely that every or even most individual civilian casualties would be mentioned in the media. The staff at IBC claims fluency only in English, and as IBC states, "We have not made use of Arabic or other non English language sources, except where these have been published in English. ... It is possible that our count has excluded some victims as a result." Furthermore, IBC's methodology ignores even English-language media reports of Iraqi civilians' deaths, unless matching reports of the s... Here's a little extra reading for you.  http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/counterexplanation.html |
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