Iraq coverage
Sorry to go on about this, but it's really bugging me. (NYTimes today)
Apparently, the 34 bodies of execution victims don't qualify as dead. Yesterday it was 10 dead and fourteen bodies "found." The people releasing this information are playing all kinds of games with the body counts right now, saving up the enemy casualties to announce big numbers while attempting to disqualify fatalities from the civilian counts.
Also, these death squad killings are being seriously underrepresented. 20 a day, at least, are found dead with their hands bound often with signs of torture.
At least 20 people died, including 16 police recruits killed by a suicide bomber in Fallujah and four Shiite students pulled from a bus in Baghdad and shot, and 34 bodies of execution victims were reported found, according to Iraqi officials.
Apparently, the 34 bodies of execution victims don't qualify as dead. Yesterday it was 10 dead and fourteen bodies "found." The people releasing this information are playing all kinds of games with the body counts right now, saving up the enemy casualties to announce big numbers while attempting to disqualify fatalities from the civilian counts.
Also, these death squad killings are being seriously underrepresented. 20 a day, at least, are found dead with their hands bound often with signs of torture.
posted by mikevotes at
7:49 AM
4 Comments:
nice catch. I read that stuff everyday and didn't even notice it. very sneaky
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Graeme, at 10:58 AM
OK. So you gotta' be tortured to be killed. Otherwise, you're found bound and dead. Like, oh sh*t, I was walking down the street and then a bus hit me: bound and dead.
Oops. God bless the MSM, those...
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Bravo 2-1, at 11:33 AM
Yes, but at least Baghdad's going to have a water park and wave machine.
Shouldn't we focus on the positive news like that out of Iraq? I know Laura Ingraham would want us to do so.
BTW, how long will it take after the water park opens for the first bound tortured bodies to be "found" in it?
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Reality-Based Educator, at 12:40 PM
Yeah, they started playing with the casualty numbers about two weeks ago. You'll also notice that they're "saving up" US fatalities for a day or two to announce them on weekends.
The really sick irony of the waterpark story is that they found fourteen bound and tortured bodies at an abandoned amusement park yesterday.
Also, when a good portion of the country doesn't even have drinkable water.....
Mike
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mikevotes, at 1:04 PM
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