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Aargh.From that webpg. Question: 9000 US Dead in Iraq Submitted by iowaseeds on Tue, 06/28/2005 - 17:10.
9K US dead? Is this claim true? Is Brian Harring a reliable source?
Subject: 9K US dead? is this lie impeachment-worthy?
Link to story
Daily Kos ran that. These Kossacks, were hornswoggled by those extreme rightists around Willis Carto at The Barnes Review. http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/index.php?module=v4bJournal&func=journal_view&uid=3&mode=detail
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/18/115832/501
9000 Dead GIs In Iraq?
As a forwarded msg. from Stan Goff 'sez, about another inflated, bogus #, http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg68272.html -----Original Message----- From: Stanley Goff
Hey Carlos,
I hope you will send this along to the list, because this is important.
These figures are NOT possible, and very well may be a disinformaiton campaign to do some Dan Rather judo on the movement.
I know we all want to catch the bad guys red-handed at something that is the equivalent of a public relations tsunami, but this ain't it.
(1) If there were this many dead out of theater, there would be a clamor by the families, who look up the names of the dead on published lists. No such clamor has happened. Military communities are tight-tight, and these families compare notes all the time. The idea that they could be deceived on this scale is quite simply not possible.
(2) In trauma cases, the critical period is usually the first 24 hours, and after that the post-injury fatality rates FALL sharply... while this "report" sugggests they have risen at four or five times the rate.
The left will be well served to beware of body-count politics that tempts us to inflate numbers the way Centcom inlfates theirs with regard to "insurgents."
Stay well,
Stan http://stangoff.com
Truth is bad enough, why exaggerate?
-- Michael Pugliese