Still not interested in civilian casualties in Iraq

[G_j]

...some deaths don't register high enough on the interest scale.

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The Untold Story of the Civilian Death Toll Mohamad Ozeir, Pacific News Service

Apart from news agency reports, U.S. newspapers have continued to ignore the rising civilian casualties in Iraq.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16600

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On June 6, for example, the Arab and international press published a report from Reuters estimating the average Iraqi casualty count due to U.S. cluster bombs at 15 per day. The report quoted an official at Mines Advisory Group, who said his organization counted 80 killed and 500 injured between April 10 and June 5, 2003. Another article published July 6, based on information from Reuters and AFP, described a bomb that killed seven Iraqis and injured 40 of the new Police Academy trainees. This incident went entirely unnoticed in American media.
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A review of the Arab press counting only deaths that were a direct result of armed U.S. or British actions, and taking care not to double-count fatalities, reveals that since May 1, the day President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq, 245 Iraqi civilians have been killed as a direct result of military action or war-related events.

This number is small when compared to the estimate of civilian deaths from the entire war, compiled by British-based Iraq Body Count, which put the number between 6,086 and 7,797. The extensive cross-checking and conservative methods used to obtain this estimate can be reviewed at www.iraqbodycount.org. From victims of remnant cluster bomblets, mainly children to civilians caught in cross-fire or surprised by an American checkpoint, to victims of vengeful acts at the hands of the old regime's victims, Iraqis continue to lose their lives as a result of the war.
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[sujan]

1. what about afghanistan?

I bet the numbers run even high there. And I dont include the fighters.

[izzie]

7. Bush does not care. This country is gone.

Sorry but it another country we have trashed.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. It was over 7000 a month ago.

I really doubt deaths attributed to disease and other causes quazi associated with the war can't be ebing factored in here.

[Swede]

3. Who the fuck cares that 900 wounde

and 250 dead. Come on we won the freakin war.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. Tell that to Steven White

Tell that to Steven White

[wuushew]

5. I care

:nuke:

[Feanorcurufinwe]

6. Who cares?