Blair rejects call for count of Iraqi deaths

[saigon68]

Scale of killing obscured by refusal to collect data

Rory McCarthy in Baghdad

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1369455,00.html

The Guardian

General Tommy Franks, the US commander in the Iraq war last year, spelled it out before the invasion began.
"We don't do body counts," he said, referring to the Iraqis that might be killed in the forthcoming conflict.

His deputies were left to explain why a careful toll of American dead was kept but Iraqi deaths went unrecorded.

"It just is not worth trying to characterise by numbers," Brigadier General Vince Brooks, the deputy director of operations at US central command, said just days before the fall of Baghdad.

[Swamp Rat]

1. Let me be the first to say it:

Tony Blair is a scumbag

[arcos]

2. ¡Bien dicho!

:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

3. ¿Como estás Tico?

Estoy bien bravo a los matadores pendejos.

Una pregunta. ¿Sabes cuanto questa un boleto de línea aérea para Costa Rica en Febrero? Yo tengo un amigo que va a casarse en el cinco de Febrero en Zarcero (ya lo conozco Zarcero y la iglésia a dónde hay los arbustos animales, y el viejo que los cuida)

Me falta Ticoland... :cry: ... y estoy olvidándome el español también. Está mudando ao portugües e preciso voltar ao CR pra lembrar o espanhol.

Bocas de ceviche de dorado con una cerveza Imperial... ¿que más necesita en la vida?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. In other words, Arabs don't count

the only important people in Blair's mind are the English and Americans. And they have the audacity to say that the Iraqis "hate us for our freedoms"???? How about despise us for our racism?

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1054176