Thursday, October 11, 2007

"We don't do body counts" General Tommy Franks


Maybe we don't do body counts but the IBC does and I have put a counter from their website database of violent civilian deaths during and since the 2003 invasion. "The count encompasses non-combatants killed by military or paramilitary action and the breakdown in civil security following the invasion." By their own admission this is a very conservative number. In October 2006 the Lancet, a well respected British medical journal, estimated over 650,000 deaths in Iraq. Everyday on the news we hear about the deaths of American soldiers (3,820), but we seldom see or hear on the news the death toll in the country we were supposed to be liberating. I would really like to see this administration tried for war crimes. I'm sure this will never happen but can't we at least impeach these criminals?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good to know that somebody considers Iraqi lives worth counting.
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