BusinessWeek: Lies Told about Casualties of the First Gulf War

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

This is the BUSINESS WEEK article about civilians casualties in the first BushSr Gulf war. And how then Def Sect'y Dick Cheney tried to fire this lady for her report on Iraq civilian casualties.

No wonder the Pentagon spinner, Victoria Clarke,
refused to answers the question posed to her on number of civilian casualties the Pentagon expects in Iraq and Bagdad, a city of 5 million.

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BusinessWeek: Lies Told about Casualties of the First Gulf War...

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2003/nf2003026_0167_db052.htm

"Beth Osborne Daponte was a 29-year-old Commerce Dept. demographer in 1992, when she publicly contradicted then-Defense Secretary Richard Cheney on the highly sensitive issue of Iraqi civilian casualties during the Gulf War. In short order, Daponte was told she was losing her job. She says her official report disappeared from her desk, and a new estimate, prepared by supervisors, greatly reduced the number of estimated civilian casualties."

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Although Cheney said shortly after the 1991 Gulf War that "we have no way of knowing precisely how many casualties occurred" during the fighting "and may never know," Daponte had estimated otherwise: 13,000 civilians were killed directly by American and allied forces, and about 70,000 civilians died subsequently from war-related damage to medical facilities and supplies, the electric power grid, and the water system, she calculated.

In all, 40,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed in the conflict, she concluded, putting total Iraqi losses from the war and its aftermath at 158,000, including 86,194 men, 39,612 women, and 32,195 children.
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[mistertrickster]

1. We don't know how many billions of dollars Cheney has diverted to his old

boss, and we probably will never know . . . wait, it's 13 billion.

Start getting used to flames and hot pokers, you SOB!