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2009-02-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tu3031 2009-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Liar Liar!

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-05 05:15|| 2009-02-05 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 C'mon folks. The man personally observed those numbers falling off the back of the truck. Picked 'em up and dusted 'em off his ownself, he did.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-02-05 11:11|| 2009-02-05 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 His research was based on a survey of Iraqi households and concluded that by July 2006 about 655,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a result of the US-led invasion.

...and then it goes on to talk about various other numbers.

It's a misleading quantatative discussion that avoids some qualitative questions, like how did the civilians in question die.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-05 12:20|| 2009-02-05 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 A key element of what I've called A World Gone Stupid (TM) since shortly after 9/11.

What's most troubling is how "transparent" the fraudulence of these stunts has been. Whether it's these absurd inventions about Iraq, or AGW. The clown Hansen at NASA has been pulling shit like this for years, and yet has not been fired and shamed into silence.

Yet again, it was criminally incompetent of the Bush administration and DOD not to take this nonsense on directly, publicly, and in a vituperative manner guaranteed to get attention. The absurdity of the numbers, given the nature and size of military operations and violence in Iraq at the time, was one thing. But it was equally important to remind everyone that almost all of the killing, and virtually ALL of the killing of non-combatants, was being done by the enemy, not the Coalition.

Since we now are ruled by Beltway retards and affirmative action mediocrities who are especially ignorant and morally inverted in these matters, it will only be the occasional, obscure b-slap like this, from within their respective communities, that will do anything to correct the record.

Posted by Verlaine 2009-02-05 12:23|| 2009-02-05 12:23|| Front Page Top

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