What's wrong with this headine?
US toll in Iraq hits all-time low as month ends
Hey, it's wonderful news that US casualties, as well as Iraqi casualties, continue to decrease. Fewer deaths are always better than more. But i suspect that just picking a month at random, say, April 1989, would put the lie to the claim of "all-time low."
Just sayin'.
Hey, it's wonderful news that US casualties, as well as Iraqi casualties, continue to decrease. Fewer deaths are always better than more. But i suspect that just picking a month at random, say, April 1989, would put the lie to the claim of "all-time low."
Just sayin'.
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Yeah, under Saddam Iraq used to be sooo much better. Here are a couple of "random" months.
UNSC RESOLUTION 688 (1991)
Amnesty International
IRAQ - Victims of Systematic Repression
24 November 1999
Gross human rights violations are systematically taking place in Iraq. They range from arbitrary arrest and detention, to torture, extrajudicial and judicial executions after unfair summary trials, ''disappearances'', and forcible expulsions on the basis of ethnic origin. While the Iraqi Government has used every opportunity to publicize the suffering of the population under the sanctions regime, such as by allowing foreign journalists, politicians and others to visit the country, it has exercised a complete news blackout on the atrocities that its security forces have been committing against suspected opponents of the government. This report addresses the range of Amnesty International concerns about human rights violations committed in Iraq in recent years, including arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, the death penalty, possible extrajudicial executions and forcible expulsion of non-Arabs.
I can't find the link now, but at one time AI was estimating that Saddam was murdering 5,000 a MONTH. But that was done in secret so I guess it doesn't really count?
The fact that we actually now know what's going on in Iraq, even when it's bad news, is positive step.
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