Re: Surrealism in Washington
On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
On 11/29/06, Doug Henwood dhenwood@panix.com wrote: The other week, Leninology cited a BBC account, based on U.S. DoD figures, showing the vast majority of attacks in Iraq were on coalition forces, not civilians. However, Cordesman says of that data series in this report:
Yes but, my impression is that the numbers of civilians killed by the insurgents far outnumbers those killed by the US military.
Yup. As I recall the BBC report on the coalition figures (I’m too
lazy to look it up), 80% of the attacks are against coalition forces,
but 80% of the casualties are civilian. But you have to wonder how
accurately the Pentagon counts the civilian deaths; as Cordesman
points out, the death toll in Anbar province was 0, which is not
credible.
Doug