Re: [Marxism] 50,000 Iraqis dead - as though U.S. lost 570,000

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As the L.A. Times itself admits, though only if you read carefully, "50,000"
isn't just an undercount but a GROSS undercount, and at that, only an
undercount of Iraqi CIVILIANS killed; it doesn't even include tens of
thousands of other Iraqis - soldiers killed in the initial invasion,
resistance fighters, and even most government security forces.

A more detailed analysis here:
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_lefti_archive.html#115133428307433891

Also see this discussion, based on a Knight-Ridder article, of the thousands
of "escalation of force" incidents (checkpoint shootings) which have occured
in just the last year:
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_lefti_archive.html#115133904339861069


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com



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