>Subject: [lbo-talk] The Civilian Casualty Fable (100K dead in Iraq?)
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>http://www.logictimes.com/civilian.htm
>I'll forward this around for comments by those far better able to
>judge the statistical analysis.
It's total right wing bullshit, I'm not going to lower myself to his argument that only 'x' civilians have been killed in Iraq, rather 'y' where x<y can be logically proven to be true, or whose fable about civilian deaths is true. The invasion and occupation of Iraq were illegal and (legal niceties aside) the world was lied to about why it was necessary. It doesn't matter of there was 1,1,000, 10,000 or 1 million civilians killed, it is a criminal exercise. Arguing with people like this only validates their support for criminality by trying to legitimate it with a lower number of people killed.
Fuck that.
Look at the home page and see who this nimrod calls 'brilliant thinkers'. That's the scary thing with the right these days, it's getting harder and harder to tell when reality stops and self parody starts.
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