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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:21 PM
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Knight ridder, US killing 2x as many Iraqi civilians as insurgents. Maybe
that's what Chimpy is talking about when he talks about our progress. Anyway, here's the link.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000642386
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tranche Donating Member (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:25 PM
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1. Whoever's left is going to love their freedoms.
It's things like this which make a person really start to think about what good we're really doing over there.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:31 PM
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2. So how many Iraqis did Saddam kill per year
in contrast to the current death rate? Are they better off with us or not? (Disregarding the small things like no power, no food, no water...)
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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:36 PM
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3. But according to Chimpy, their poll numbers show they think their
leaders are doing a better job than we believe ours are. Now that I actually believe
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cheezus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:38 PM
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4. we've killed around 5000 insurgents?
the math doesn't seem quite right
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 05:47 PM
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5. 5000 insurgents & 5000 to 25,000 innocent bystanders.
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