Scottie and Me (Russell Mokhiber is back!) inre: Iraqi casualties

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Note Scottie's oxymoron in the last line.


Scottie & Me
(formerly known as Ari & I)
White House Press Briefing with Scott McClellan
Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 12:30pm
by Russell Mokhiber

Mokhiber: Scott, the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health last month estimated that the war in Iraq has resulted in 100,000 Iraqi deaths. The administration has said in the past that it doesn’t do body counts, but do you consider 100,000 to be in the ballpark of number of Iraqis killed as a result of the war?

Scott McLellan: I don’t know of any specific estimates on the civilians. I know that the United States military goes out of its way to minimize the loss of civilian life. And what we are working to achieve in Iraq is an important cause that will make America more secure. And we are working side by side with the Iraqi people to move forward on free elections because a free Iraq will help transform a dangerous region of the world and make America more secure. And our men and women in the military are doing an outstanding job. They are serving and sacrificing in a very important cause.

Mokhiber: If I could follow up on that, does the President have an estimate before him on the number of Iraqis killed as a result of the war?

Scott McLellan: I’m not aware of a precise estimate, an estimate of that nature.


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[Spinzonner]

1. What's a 'precise estimate' ?

Isn't that something like an oxymoron ?

Well, coming from this administration, it wouldnt be the first moron.

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2. That's the president's spokesperson, all right!

Wait til you hear his boss speak! Yikes!