[lbo-talk] US killing twice as many civilians as resistance

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] US killing twice as many civilians as resistance
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:28:09 -0400
>
>Editor & Publisher Online - September 25, 2004
>
>Knight Ridder Scoop: Iraqi Civilian Casualties
>
>By E&P staff
>
>NEW YORK An exclusive report from Knight Ridder's Washington office, which 
>has gained much renown for this sort of thing in the past year, revealed 
>Saturday that U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing 
>twice as many Iraqis, most of them civilians, as attacks by insurgents.


>From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] must have been the CIA, right?
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
>
>How dare you criticize these heroic liberators of the
>Iraqi people!!! :)
>
>--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Scores of children killed in wave of Baghdad car
> > bombings

Carp, carp, carp.  You're both missing the big picture ... Freedom!  Go 
placidly amid the noise and haste with Reichsfuhrer Rumsfeld:  "Stuff 
happens … and it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to 
make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."

Carl