October 28, 2004

Poor planning, air strikes by coalition forces and a "climate of violence" have led to more than 100,000 extra deaths in Iraq, scientists say

Amazingly, stories on the Iraqi civilian death toll don't seem particularly interesting to American news consumers. Will the figure of 100,000 extra deaths catch anyone's eye? Also, what happened to all the promises to avoid collateral damage with talk of precision bombing etc. Seems clear that they just went in and bombed the crap out of everything. After all, Arab lives aren't worth nearly as much as a coalition lives. Bastards!