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Subject:	Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Mon, 24 May 2004 18:13:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello wrote:

I heard a radio interview with the creators of Iraqbodycount.net, they are a clearly partisan group, whose research methods are suspect at best. Basically they look at all news sources for any mention of civilian casualties. They make no attempt to verify the numbers, nor to ensure that they are not double or triple counting the same casualties. They are simply morbid hearse chasers, using the event of accidental collateral damage to further their cause, truly despicable.

Without commenting directly on www.iraqbodycount.net, I would like to offer this article for consideration. You’ll either need to subscribe to Salon or watch a brief promotional ad from a sponser, but it takes less than a minute.

The meat of it is that statistics from morgues in Baghdad and three surrounding provinces put the death toll at about 5,500, and that doesn’t include deaths in Najaf or Falujah or the occasional random slaughter of wedding parties.

As I recall, the death toll from the destruction of the World Trade Center came in somewhere under 3,000, so Dubya is responsible for the unprovoked massacre of a far greater number of innocent civilians than Osama bin Laden.

Dave!

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		Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
(...) Incorrect. In fact, the responsibility of those lost Iraqi lives can be attributed to OBL as well. Consider this recent NYT article by Thomas Friedman: (URL) The resistance in Iraq is coming primarily from outside Iraq, not in. As Friedman (...) (20 years ago, 24-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: From Reason: "It's all bad news - Chaos in occupied Iraq"
(...) I’ve always thought that this was a silly criticism, true twenty years ago, during the Iran/Iraq war we supported Hussein as the lesser of two evils, you act as if we furnished his palace and rolled out the red carpet. We often have dealings (...) (21 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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