Wednesday, January 13, 2010

When It Comes To Dead Civilians

Somehow the numbers can be penciled in down to missing teeth when it's time for propaganda to blame the villains in this theater, but are dismissed with a pithy quote and a dismissive wave of the hand when the empire has too obvious blood on it's hands.
It's the thrust of the bullshit that they want us to believe anyway. The numbers are pulled out of their asses. An "insurgent" is whoever they want, and the vast majority of bombings that wantonly slaughter innocent people are manufactured by CIA/Mossad/Blackwater spooks. If dead civilian numbers are up it's because this false flag murder was increased to justify their preplanned massive escalation into AfPak.

U.N. Blames Taliban for Afghan Toll

"KABUL, Afghanistan — Last year was the most lethal for Afghan civilians since the American-led war began here in late 2001, with the Taliban and other insurgent groups causing the vast majority of noncombatant deaths, according to a United Nations survey released Wednesday.
The U.N. report said that 2,412 civilians were killed in 2009, a jump of 14 percent over the previous year. Another 3,566 Afghan civilians were wounded, the report found."

But the most striking aspect of the U.N. report was the shift in responsibility for the deaths of Afghan civilians. The survey found that the Taliban and other insurgents killed three times more civilians than the American-led coalition and Afghan government forces last year.
The 1,630 civilians killed by insurgents represented a 40 increase over the previous year — and two-thirds of the civilians killed. Most of those civilian deaths, the survey found, were caused by suicide bombings, homemade bombs and executions."


How many Iraqis died? We may never know

(2003) PST Washington -- The world will never know how many Iraqis died in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, in part because the United States adamantly refuses to estimate the number of people it kills in combat and because gathering accurate numbers is all but impossible after the Iraqi government's chaotic collapse.
What Bush administration officials do say is that the U.S. operation in Iraq included unprecedented efforts to minimize civilian casualties. That humanitarian stance has increased pressure on the Pentagon to abandon its long- held refusal to publicly offer numbers of civilians or enemy military personnel killed, as a way of showing if the use of precision-guided bombs and missiles and rules designed to avoid civilian targets have reduced so-called collateral damage.

"We don't do body counts," Gen. Tommy Franks, who directed the Iraq invasion, has said."

3 Comments:

Anonymous Nick Z said...

The survey found that the Taliban and other insurgents killed three times more civilians than the American-led coalition and Afghan government forces last year.

HUGE LIES from the BIGGEST LIARS of 21st Century Earth.

13/1/10 6:37 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Pretty much sums it up here.

13/1/10 8:22 AM  
Blogger nolocontendere said...

Incredible and brazen.

13/1/10 4:39 PM  

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