Apparently... Iraqis Are Expendable, Even As Dead People !!!

[WillyT]

IRAQ WAR
U.S. officials exclude car bombs in touting drop in Iraq violence
By Nancy A. Youssef
McClatchy Newspapers

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WASHINGTON - U.S. officials who say there has been a dramatic drop in sectarian violence in Iraq since President Bush began sending more American troops into Baghdad aren't counting one of the main killers of Iraqi civilians. Car bombs and other explosive devices have killed thousands of Iraqis in the past three years, but the administration doesn't include them in the casualty counts it has been citing as evidence that the surge of additional U.S. forces is beginning to defuse tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

President Bush explained why in a television interview on Tuesday. "If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory," he told TV interviewer Charlie Rose.

Others, however, say that not counting bombing victims skews the evidence of how well the Baghdad security plan is protecting the civilian population - one of the surge's main goals. "Since the administration keeps saying that failure is not an option, they are redefining success in a way that suits them," said James Denselow, an Iraq specialist at London-based Chatham House, a foreign policy think tank.

Bush administration officials have pointed to a dramatic decline in one category of deaths - the bodies dumped daily in Baghdad streets, which officials call sectarian murders - as evidence that the security plan is working. Bush said this week that that number had declined by 50 percent, a number confirmed by statistics compiled by McClatchy Newspapers. But the number of people killed in explosive attacks is rising, the same statistics show - up from 323 in March, the first full month of the security plan, to 365 through April 24.

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Link: http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/columnists/nancy_youssef/17134253.htm

My... Fucking... God...

:nuke:

[Erika]

1. W wants to hide the Iraqi dead

Just brown Muslims, after all. He wouldn't put up with this carnage of a nation's people if it were a white nation.

You can see the bloody truth at www.icasualties.org

We're decimating a country and its population.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I don't think Bush is any fonder of poor whites than poor brown

people. Some of his best best hand-holding buddies are Prince Bandar and about 50 people named Bin Laden. He has cheerfully overseen the killing and maiming of 50,000 Americans, after all.

[Erika]

5. You have a point.

Thank you.

[PDJane]

2. Add the deaths from DU,

and this is going to continue for a very long time.

What the hell do these people use for brains???

[Jackpine Radical]

6. More a question of what they use for hearts, imho.

They just don't give a shit about the human wreckage in the wake of the Emperor's galley.

[nam78_two]

4. K&R.nt