On Nov 29, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> The other week, Leninology cited a BBC account, based on U.S. DoD
> figures, showing the vast majority of attacks in Iraq were on
> coalition forces, not civilians. However, Cordesman says of that data
> series in this report:
>
> Yes but, my impression is that the numbers of civilians killed by
> the insurgents far outnumbers those killed by the US military.
Yup. As I recall the BBC report on the coalition figures (I'm too lazy to look it up), 80% of the attacks are against coalition forces, but 80% of the casualties are civilian. But you have to wonder how accurately the Pentagon counts the civilian deaths; as Cordesman points out, the death toll in Anbar province was 0, which is not credible.
Doug