Lou Dobbs: so far, 15,000 Iraqi civilians were killed by insurgents

[question everything]

that's fifteen thousands this year! I am having hard time, still, to comprehend this.

(no link, but I am sure there are many out there)

[pooja]

1. Yeah... all those dead people doing better with Hussein removed

:sarcasm:

[WCGreen]

2. To put it in perspective, Last year, for the whole year, The US

murder rate was about 18,000...

And our population is more than 10 times that of Iraq...

That would be like having 288,000 murders in this country....

That is a city the size of Akron, Ohio...

Fort Wayne, Indiana...

[whistle]

3. I'll bet he pulled that information right out of his ass! What have

....John Negroponte's death squads been doing, playing twiddle-dee-winks?

[question everything]

5. Found it

As our airwaves fill with images and sounds of exploding Hezbollah rockets and Israeli bombs, this seven-day conflict has completely displaced from our view another war in which 10 Americans and more than 300 Iraqis have died during the same week. And it is a conflict now of more than three years duration that has claimed almost 15,000 lives so far this year alone.

An estimated 50,000 Iraqis and more than 2,500 American troops have been killed since the insurgency began in March of 2003, which by some estimates is more than the number of dead on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past 58 years of wars and intifadas.

Yet we have seen no rescue ships moving up the Euphrates for Iraqis who are dying in their streets, markets and mosques each day. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has not leaped to Baghdad as he did Beirut. And there are no meetings of the Arab League, and no U.S. diplomacy with Egypt, Syria and Jordan directed at ending the Iraqi conflict.

In the Middle East, where is our sense of proportion? Where is our sense of perspective? Where is our sense of decency? And, finally, just how smart are we?

From http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/18/dobbs.july19/index.html

[whistle]

8. Thanks for the link, according to latest U.S. Census International data

...database on population by country Israel has approximately 6.4 million inhabitants while Lebanon, a country with more than twice the area of Israel has only 3.9 million residents. Iraq they claim now has over 26.8 million people living there which I believe is totally inaccurate. That country is loosing population due to war casulties, lowered birth rates, death squads and tens of thousands of refugees fleeing out of Iraq using any means possible.

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbrank.html

Bottom line, none of these data are at all reliable and the Bush Administration is quite content with leaving the official data as it is so that it gives a false impression that everything is just normal and moving nicely along.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Remove Saddam..... BRILLIANT!!!! Guard the Oil Ministry...

BRILLIANT!!! Disband the military... BRILLIANT!!! Abandon the ammo dumps... BRILLIANT!!! Create another theocracy in the ME... BRILLIANT!!!

You have accomplished what a dozen Clinton's couldn't... heck of a job gw.

[Erika]

6. And we created the insurgents

and brought hell to Iraq.

[GreenTea]

7. Isn't he just a liberal doll...."Insurgents" and how does one know this?

Do they also rape and kill and bomb...Where's that tally?