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To: MEG33
You're very welcome, MEG. The new AP report on "civilian casualties" - implying once again that our awesome, mature, careful, honorable troops were somehow responsible - about sent me down to my local newspaper to slap the editor upside the head. I don't care if they depend on these "newswires" - 'just following orders' is no excuse for local American newspeople, either. Not after 911. Not with this mainstream press.
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MSNBC's Bob Arnott: Iraqi Hospitals Filled Children with Gunshots - From Saddam's Fedeyeen
MSNBC | 4-10-2003

Bob Arnott was just on MSNBC reporting that he had traveled to many of the hospitals in the area and assisted in the care for the many children in the facilities that have been struck by gunfire (he's also a doctor). He said he was unsure what the mood in the hospitals would be but found the doctors and patients to be "ecstatic" that Saddam was gone. He then said that the gunshots were all made by small caliber weapons that the U.S. Army does not have and, when he inquired further about the cause of the wounds, he was told by parents and hospital staff that the paramilitary forces were shooting kids on purpose to make it look like the U.S. forces were inflicting civilian casualties.


11 posted on 06/11/2003 7:05:56 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("The American people are proud of you and God bless each of you." Rummy to troops in Iraq)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
The UN estimate before the war was that there would be hundreds of thousands killed and wounded.Let's celebrate their lack of credibility.
14 posted on 06/11/2003 7:22:54 AM PDT by MEG33
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