About the Pentagon's Iraq war casualty figures.

[cornermouse]

I wonder if it would be possible to have a central information area on the internet where people could go to record Iraq war casualties as they are reported in thier locality? It could be a way to check up on the honesty of the Pentagon's figures. Does anyone think it would work?

[DireStrike]

1. I wish, but... credibility.

How could you trust it? Would people check up on it?

[cornermouse]

2. Usually they report them in the local newspaper.

Quite a few of them are online.

[DireStrike]

5. It could work, if it were thoroughly documented.

I'm sorely curious as to what the actual casualty count is.

[Robbien]

6. It would have worked if the project was started

close to the beginning of the invasion. On-line articles are pulled after a period of time.

[cornermouse]

10. I'm thinking of a more current, on-going project.

I know newspapers are deleted after a relatively short period of time. I think we'd have to start with a "as of today" perspective.

[DrWeird]

3. No.

Since most Iraqi casualties go unreported. Or are you thinking of a way to disprove the Pentagon? That hardly seems worth the effort. Since nobody really believes anything they say. I mean just a couple of weeks ago they were openly talking about expanding their propaganda effort.

[cornermouse]

9. I was thinking of a

central holding area where people could email/input information with a person's name, newspaper and date of newspaper, state, to be sorted through and verified by a responsible person and then added to the list.

I think it could work.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The BBC has just released casualty figure for the last 6 months

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1193026&mesg_id=1193026

[Robbien]

7. Those are Iraqi civilian deaths, and the number is a propaganda

number. How could any reasoning person believe that very very low number when the entire city of Fallujah has been turned to rubble after only women and children were allowed to evacuate?

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. At least we have a minimum number

to start from. We now know that the Iraqi casualties for this period was at least 12,657 civilian casualties.

Since most of the civilians had left Fallujha by the time we started bombing it, I don't think these numbers are that far off. Keep in mind they are probably exluding all Iraqi males from that figure.

[LynnTheDem]

11. The ICC does check

The figures are only listed on ICC when the DoD and Centcom releases are issued...

BUT.

But we spend hours every day of every week with newsfeeds that search thousands of articles every few minutes for any and all referances to Iraq & US soldiers.

All mention to troops being killed are accounted for and any that aren't matched to DoD and Centcom means Pat & Michael yammering at DoD and Centcom until they get the releases.

We check newspaper funeral notices; if a family is burying their son "John Doe, killed in Iraq" buried today in SmallTown, USA, we check to be sure John Doe is one of our listed.

DO THE SAME YOURSELVES! PLEASE!

Check whatever papers you read, online or hard copy, and any funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq compare to the ICC list & ensure the soldier(s) is listed.

And if you find any soldier "killed in Iraq" or "died from injuries Iraq" and he/she is not on the ICC list, PLEASE email the ICC and let them know!

http://icasualties.org/oif/

TIA!

[cornermouse]

12. I'm sure you'll understand that in this day and age

with all the stuff that Bush has been doing surfacing, it might be helpful to know who is sponsoring or supporting this website? Thank you.

[LynnTheDem]

13. My friend Patricia and Michael; and myself and others do research

by spending many hours every day of every week searching newsfeeds and literally thousands of articles.

[cornermouse]

14. Thank you.

[LynnTheDem]

15. You're welcome.

:)