Saturday, October 30, 2004

 

100,000 Iraqi civilians dead (and counting!)

This is a snippet from The Onion, shortly after we invaded Iraq:

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Dead Iraqi Would Have Loved Democracy

BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Baghdad resident Taha Sabri, killed Monday in a U.S. air strike on his city, would have loved the eventual liberation of Iraq and establishment of democracy, had he lived to see it, his grieving widow said.
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Now, John Hopkins University has concluded that 100,000 civilians have been killed as a result of our invasion. That's 97,000 more paople than were killed in the 9/11 attacks, with which Iraq had nothing to do.

It's ironic that the only WMDs ever found there were the ones that we attacked them with.

More irony: The Bloomberg story linked to here notes, without comment, that "the majority of the casualties occured after the end of major hostilities," which, by definition, simply cannot be true.

Fortunately, Americans still have a chance to begin fixing this mind-warping clusterfuck by voting for the Kerry/Edwards ticket this coming Tuesday.
Bloomberg.com:U.S.
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