MB Civic

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101306C.shtml

First the numbers .. sure to keep growing

No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the war’s violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimates that the number of those deaths is around 601,000, while saying the actual total could be somewhere between 426,369 and 793,663. Such wartime figures can’t be precise, but the meaning is clear: The invasion of Iraq has led to ongoing carnage on a massive scale.

Then the folks in the media with blood on their hands – Jonah Goldberg of the National Review for one .. and supposed “liberal” Christopher Hichtens:

Christopher Hitchens wrote that “the Defense Department has evolved highly selective and accurate munitions that can sharply reduce the need to take or receive casualties. The predictions of widespread mayhem turned out to be false last time – when the weapons [in the Gulf War] were nothing like so accurate. [MAB Note .. not true]” In fact, Hitchens asserted, “it can now be proposed as a practical matter that one is able to fight against a regime and not a people or a nation.” As a practical matter, journalism like that ends up putting cosmetics on death.

How do you sleep at night with so many deaths on your conscience?
-MAB