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2009-02-02 Iraq

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-02 08:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Good Lord! The beauty of this delusion is that there's no need for a scintilla of documentaion nor is there a comparison with the toll of the previous Tikriti regime. When Obama acknowledged the recent Iraqi election, he thanked the UN ... everyone but those directly responsible ... the American Armed Forces. Wake me up in twenty years when the real scholarship begins.

Posted by William Marcy Tweed 2009-02-02 09:02|| 2009-02-02 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 They left out the body count of puppies, baby ducks, and unicorns. [Also missing in the count is the large number of muzzie on muzzie killing]. The only surprise here is that it wasn't in the esteemed Lancet. /sarcasm off

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-02 09:05|| 2009-02-02 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Quagmire!

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-02-02 09:38|| 2009-02-02 09:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Still using discredited "NEJM" counts, only not attributing them now.

Posted by Darrell 2009-02-02 11:13|| 2009-02-02 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 How did 1 millions dead create 2 millions of widows and 5 million of orphans?

Iraqi men must be rich so support many more than 2 wives.

The women must be very fertile to average 5 children each before they were killed along with their husbands.

I guess the left gave up trying to do the math on invented numbers, and just pulled conveniently large number out of their arse without calculating any sort of cohesiveness.

Posted by Lagom 2009-02-02 11:36|| 2009-02-02 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Lagom, it is an Islamic country. I suppose if a significant fraction of the dead had their full four wives, there could be a multiple of widows for the dead...

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-02-02 13:36|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-02 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 "Most independent analysts would say it's too soon to judge the political outcome."

They're waiting until they can give Obama all the credit.

Meanwhile, Iraqi TV reports:
"In the lowest death toll since five years, Iraq Defense, Interior and Health Ministries reported that a total of 191 Iraqis were killed including 140 civilians, 27 soldiers and 24 policemen due to violence marked in January 2009."

January Death Toll Lowest in 5 Years

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-02-02 14:35|| 2009-02-02 14:35|| Front Page Top

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