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CRITICS WITHOUT CREDIBILITY (Human Rights Watch)
New York Post ^
| 12/13/03
Posted on 12/13/2003 1:29:39 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:17:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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December 13, 2003 -- The activist group Human Rights Watch has claimed that "hundreds of civilian deaths" in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq "could have been prevented" if only America hadn't used cluster munitions or tried to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership using intercepts of satellite phone calls. This could be true. After all, war is an inherently messy thing - a kingdom of difficult, often deadly choices.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: casualties; clusterbombs; deaths; hrw; humanrightswatch; iraq; iraqifreedom; lefties
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posted on
12/13/2003 1:29:39 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Does anyone know how these human rights groups and such went about determining the total number of civilian casualties in Iraq?
I have heard numbers in the thousands, but I find that really hard to believe. Is it possible that they counted the plentiful numbers of combatants that abandoned their uniforms and tried to kill us by blending into the population?
If they were dead, but not in uniform, did they count them as civilians?
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posted on
12/13/2003 1:44:36 AM PST
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture...the Bush White House will be unmanned!)
To: texasflower
Does anyone know how these human rights groups and such went about determining the total number of civilian casualties in Iraq?
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posted on
12/13/2003 1:56:44 AM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: zarf
Oh....now I get it. I knew some wise person would know that!
I wish I had the wit that some people on FR have! I stand in awe of your talent!
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posted on
12/13/2003 2:03:17 AM PST
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture...the Bush White House will be unmanned!)
To: kattracks
And during the war it could barely rouse itself to condemn the Iraqi forces' practice of wearing civilian clothes - an open-and-shut, abundantly documented, large-scale violation of one of the core laws of war that put civilians at grave risk.
It's called "turning a blind eye".
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posted on
12/13/2003 3:44:56 AM PST
by
samtheman
To: kattracks
Yesterday NPR gave 7-8 minutes to this human rights groups nonsense and about 45 seconds for the administration to rebutt it. It seems like NPRs coverage is straight from the DNC playbook.
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posted on
12/13/2003 6:59:50 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: kattracks
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posted on
12/13/2003 8:50:00 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(The U.N. is a terrorist organization)
To: texasflower
They were saying 500,000 Iraqis would die in the aftermath of a US assualt.
Also, I wonder when these so-called human rights groups, who bash the US over Guantanamo, will mention Castro's human rights abuses.
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posted on
12/13/2003 8:53:00 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(Shoot me if you ever see me on a Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson or Scott Peterson thread)
To: Guillermo
I just want them to protest in communist China, the execution capital of the world! Maybe right in Tienemen Square maybe!
DK
To: kattracks
Maybe someone should start a group called Human Rights Watch Watch...
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posted on
12/13/2003 2:19:43 PM PST
by
CAR913
(Liberalism: A & B arguing over what C should be forced to do to help D)
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