Despair in Iraq over the forgotten victims of US invasion

Published on September 9, 2004 By blogic In Politics

From the Independent:

The US army does not count the number of Iraqis killed since the invasion in March 2003. The most conservative figure for the number dead is 10,000 as calculated by private groups. It is rising every day. The US military claimed that on Tuesday alone it killed "100 militants" in air strikes on Fallujah on top of a further 33 people killed in fighting in Sadr City in Baghdad.

Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, proudly claimed on Tuesday that US forces had, last month, killed between 1,500 and 2,500 Iraqi insurgents. He did not note an ominous trend that, for the first time, more Americans were probably killed by Shia fighters than by Sunni guerrillas. For the US, it is now a war on two fronts.

This is the price of Bush's incompetence. As I heard someone quip: If Bush governed half as well as he campaigns, there wouldn't be a problem.

Updated 2:35 PM:
Naturally, that "someone" was my wife, and she was referencing The Onion.

Comments

blogic

on Sep 10, 2004

Updated 2:35 PM:
Naturally, that "someone" was my wife, and she referencing The Onion.

stevendedalus

on Sep 10, 2004

Aye, let the body count begin--a lesson from Vietnam.

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