For Whom The Death Tolls
Deliberate Undercounting of “Coalition” Fatalities
by Paul de Rooij
January 24, 2004
Callousness: Exhibit 1
President Bush exhibits some unexplained callousness when confronted with the soldier casualties; the likely reason for this may be that he is empathy-impaired. He has not attended ANY soldier funerals, and he has not visited ANY wounded soldiers in the hospital – so much for “supporting our troops”. It is also clear that the White House is doing its best to hide the statistics or references to the soldier casualties. The wounded soldiers are flown in at night, and journalists are barred from reporting on the arrival of coffins, or their burial. Again, mention of the casualties is bad for the justification of the continuation of the occupation of Iraq, and it is bad for politics during an election year.
President Bush exhibits some unexplained callousness when confronted with the soldier casualties; the likely reason for this may be that he is empathy-impaired. He has not attended ANY soldier funerals, and he has not visited ANY wounded soldiers in the hospital – so much for “supporting our troops”.
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Very interesting, I did not know that fact.
Another fact that is worth noting. Some 322 US and "coalition" soldiers have been killed in Iraq since July 2, 2003, when George W Bush made his now infamous "Bring Them On" speech - far more than were killed in the period before.
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*Originally posted by Chota: *
Maybe he mean't bring on the body bags?
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You never know with Bush. His cowboy talk has always ended up rebounding in his face with tragic consequences for American soldiers and their families.
I wonder why Bush has not attended the funerals etc of anyone of the 500 + US soldiers killed in this war? Would that make bad PR for him, after he long ago declared this war effectively over?
They're probably working on the spin angle and photo op for the elction campaign, you know flags fluttering in the breeze and bush crying over a coffin with the slogan "these people died so you dont have to-we caught saddam the bad man"
Any further deaths since the capture of saddam will be put down to infections caught while clipping nails.
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*Originally posted by Chota: *
They're probably working on the spin angle and photo op for the elction campaign, you know flags fluttering in the breeze and bush crying over a coffin with the slogan "these people died so you dont have to-we caught saddam the bad man".
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True, true.
Let' see if they make a better job of it than the Jessica Lynch debacle?
We now have no less than 74 US and “coalition” soldiers killed since Saddam’s capture over six weeks ago, and 616 killed in total since this illegal war was launched in March 2003.
As Chota said in another thread, this is worse than Vietnam.
These 616 dead US and "coalition" and soldiers probably played a large in the killing of 10,000 plus Iraqi civilians in the last 10 months, so what sympathy can one show?
Even Bush seems quite ashamed of their deaths, as he has not yet to date attended any of their funerals.
We now have no less than 79 US and “coalition” soldiers killed since Saddam’s capture nearly seven weeks ago, and 620 killed in total since this illegal war was launched in March 2003.
So much for the resistance ending after the capture of Saddam - it seems to have increased!
A nice steady stream of body bags masked from the media and prying eyes arriving every day will be deciding factor in this war. The terrorist are begging the world to come save their ass. No cannon fodders from any nation just token numbers. It’s easy to bite off more than you can chew… Imagine what your good old buddy little Kim would have done… From Yalu river to 38 parallel is 500 miles from 38 parallel all the way to the south where your 37,000 gals are sun bathing is another 500. There is one way to find out cross the line one more time and see if Kims chappal is now made of WMD…
09 February 2004
Geoff Hoon, the Secretary of State for Defence, is facing demands for a full military board of inquiry into the deaths of six Royal Military Police killed by a mob in Iraq
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*Originally posted by Malik73: *
Over 90 US and "coalition" soldiers killed or missed since Saddam was captured some eight weeks ago - so much for the collapse of the resistance huh?
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That is 1.5/day --V-- 1.3/day before Saddys capture....
That’s some 94 US and “coalition” soldiers killed since Saddam was captured nearly two months ago, and 638 killed since this illegal war was launched in March 2003.
That’s some great scorecard to brag about. 94 US and coalition troops killed in 2 months. 100 innocent Iraqis killed by the resistance in 2 days. You guys should be real proud of your heros. :nook:
Please don’t bring up the deaths of innocent Iraqis commited by these “freedom fighters”. We are not concerned about that, just as we were not concerned when Saddam was killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. You are confusing hatred of the US with compassion for innocent Muslims. They are mutually exclusive emotions for some.
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*Originally posted by Seminole: *
Please don't bring up the deaths of innocent Iraqis commited by these "freedom fighters". We are not concerned about that, just as we were not concerned when Saddam was killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. You are confusing hatred of the US with compassion for innocent Muslims. They are mutually exclusive emotions for some.
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Sorry...I forgot that rule.
But let me note that at the current pace of killing, the freedom fighting resistance that is being hailed by some will kill 18,250 innocent Iraqis in the next 12 months and 574 US and coalition troops.
Now, what does this tell you about the relative value placed on Iraqi lives versus US soldiers' lives by this brave group of resistance fighters? What does it tell you about what they are really resisting? Killing your own is sure a strange way of resisting an occupation isn't it.
Putting it in context though, killing 18,250 Iraqi men, women and children is actually a slow year for the people waging this war of resistance given their historical track record.