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rooddood743 Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-03 08:06 AM
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Civilian deaths in Iraq were not considered
Here's a small bit from an article in today's Guardian:

"Many of the recent wars have been fought with the notion of a new type of warfare that produce very low civilian casualties. What we see here is that in fact we don't have that magic bullet," he said.

"In this war in particular we see that improved capabilities in precision attacks have been used to pursue more ambitious objectives rather than achieve lower numbers of civilian dead."

...and here's the link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1073070,00.html

Read that last paragraph. We were told civilian casualties would be light. They would be light because of our magic weapons. We could have made them light. They chose not to. Again, we were lied to. Reading shit like this makes me wish there was a hell. (that is, a real one, where Bush could go-not the man-made one in Iraq)

"We all float down here"-Pennywise the clown
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protect freedom impeach bush now Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-03 08:43 AM
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1. didnt you get the memo...if you're not white skinned it doesnt count
Edited on Wed Oct-29-03 08:46 AM by protect freedom impe
Why do you suppose its ok for NYTimes to have photos of dead
Iraqi civilians, and/or dead Iraqi soldiers ON the frontpage
of the NYTimes ?

But when any other newspaper, worldwide, puts a photo of
a dead US soldier the US press, military, pResident asshole,
and the whole rt-wing media whores ALL SCREAM ?

A white soldier from America counts more to them.
Why do you think Jessica Lynch a young white girl was
used as a big Pentagon rescue hoax ? She's white.

Why do you suppose the African-American soldier, a women,
who wsshot up in the same Jessica Lynch event not get
the press coverage the white girlrecieved, EVEN though
the black girl's was the real hero ?

The US press is colored blind - blind to be sensitive
of death that comes to people of color.


and they are just Iraqis, not Americans.
Didnt you get the White House memo ?
<severe sarcasm>

Death to others doesnt mean ANYTHING to this group of
PNAC White House thugs.

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