Murdoch says US death toll in Iraq 'minute'

[kpete]

Murdoch says US death toll in Iraq 'minute'
< 6 Nov, 2006 1822hrs ISTAFP >


TOKYO: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he had no regrets about supporting the US-led invasion of Iraq and argued that the US death toll in the conflict was "minute" from a historical perspective.

The conservative News Corp chief spoke on the eve of US elections where President George W Bush's Republican Party was expected to lose seats in part due to a backlash over the war.

"The death toll, certainly of Americans there, by the terms of any previous war are quite minute," Murdoch told reporters at a conference in Tokyo.

"Of course no one likes any death toll, but the war now, at the moment, it's certainly trying to prevent a civil war and to prevent Iraqis killing each other."

more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/342795.cms

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. It's ESPECIALLY "minute" if it doesn't involve any family or friends.

[mmonk]

2. If one backs unnecessary death,

then they will always downplay it and make excuses.

[spanone]

3. Good to know I had that Scum Bag sized up correctly.

Fuck you murdoch.

[hughee99]

4. The US death toll probably is minute

compared to the OVERALL number of deaths during this fiasco, almost all of which would not have occurred if not for the invasion.

[Octafish]

5. 'Minute.' 'Comma.' What's the diff?

Murder is murder.

[HeeBGBz]

6. Tell that to the moms, dads, wives, husbands...

Kids, brothers and sisters, etc. of those "minute" numbers.

What an asshat of evil.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. People die on death row all the time, for the taking of a single life.

I'll bet Rupert Murdoch's life is important to him...