The terrible human cost of Bush and Blair's military adventure: 10,000 civ

[Roon]

UK and US authorities discourage counting of deaths as a result of the conflict. But academics are monitoring the toll and have identified a grim new milestone, reports David Randall

More than 10,000 civilians, many of them women and children, have been killed so far in the Iraqi conflict, The Independent on Sunday has learnt, making the continuing conflict the most deadly war for non-combatants waged by the West since the Vietnam war more than 30 years ago.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=489082

[Cleita]

1. Everybody should read this including WH lurkers.

:kick:

[prolesunited]

2. Yes, but somehow those lives

are of less value to many in the U.S. They'll just shrug their shoulders and say that it's the price of freedom.