By which you mean, of course, "the numbers the South Ossetians could not possibly have known with any accuracy but which served perfectly as propaganda to support the Russian counter-offensive and which numbers ended up to be untrue."
Those numbers?
>
> --- On Wed, 8/20/08, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Sad Leninism.
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 3:23 PM
>> I realized right after I sent this I should have grabbed the
>> link.
>> I simply Googled "Red Cross South Ossetia estimated
>> deaths" and this was
>> one the pages that came up.
>> Having seen the pictures from Tskhinvali I don't see
>> how the toll could
>> be less than 1000.
>> Any reported numbers much below 800 are immediately as
>> suspect as
>> anything much above 1500 in my opinion.
>> Everybody lies during a military conflict.
>>
>> John Thornton
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gar Lipow wrote:
>> >> The Red Cross says independent observers have
>> confirmed at least 1600 dead
>> >> civilians in South Ossetia.
>> >>
>> >> John Thornton
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > Can you provide a link please.
>> >
>> > Because what I'm seeing from the Red Cross are
>> complaints that they
>> > can't access South Ossetia.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=94517709-8236-4cb5-a8f2-0b251b50405b
>> >
>> > I'm also seeing that Russia seems to have lowered
>> its estimates:
>> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7572635.stm
>> >
>> > I'm sure the 44 estimate is too low. But if the
>> 1,600 number proves to
>> > be off by around a factor of ten that really does
>> justify the term
>> > "dispoportionate" as a description of what
>> Moscow did. Given U.S.
>> > actions in Iraq and Afghanistan (just to mention the
>> most recent U.S.
>> > invasions) we are in no position to criticize. But we
>> don't have to
>> > excuse or be too ready to accept Russian numbers
>> without questioning
>> > them either.
>> > ___________________________________
>> > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>> >
>> >
>>
>> ___________________________________
>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
>
>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>