The Civilian Casualty Fable II: What Haditha Reveals

Logic Times ^ | 6-26-06 | Aslan

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The Civilian Casualty Fable II: What Haditha Reveals

Haditha does not reveal what anti-war liberals want it to reveal: the savagery of an unwelcome and fatigued U.S. military and a war out of control. Oddly enough, they are entirely unaware that their obsession with Haditha is in fact an admission that the civilian casualty figures tossed around these last three years are, and have always been, propaganda.

This civilian casualty fable began with the Lancet study in the fall of 2004, which claimed 100,000 civilian dead and painted a picture of indiscriminate U.S. military destruction: "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100 000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths."

The Iraq Body Count (IBC) project, well-known for its running tally of civilian dead, added to the fable with its Dossier of Civilian Casualties in the summer of 2005, which prominently featured this quote: "An old man approached, disoriented and alone, faltering forward with his cane after three warning shots. Finally, U.S. weapons fired a burst and he fell dead." Anti-war liberals, electric with excitement that the evidence of U.S. brutality was mounting, failed to notice that the IBC study, with vastly fewer casualties and a disproportionate number of men, contradicted the Lancet study, which claimed that half of the 100,000 casualties were women and children.

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[browardchad]

Good article debunking the Christmas -- ooops, makes that Xmas -- wishes of the left: 100,00 dead innocent civilians at the hands of US forces.

[katiedidit1]

Excellent...I have passed this on to my email friends.

[JessieHelmsJr]

Good read.Got to bang some commie libs upside the head with this one.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I followed some links, excellent!

[\/\/ayne]

I will never forget the gasps, groans and wails as I quoted Michael Fumento's column debunking the Lancet Study to a group of communists, terrorist supporters and other assorted anti-Americans in the question/answer period of a moonbat meeting. This column also reveals telling facts on the subject which can be used to debate liberals using their own points against them. Great logic from Logic Times.

[PogySailor]

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