Counting the dead. 1742 or 6210?
Well I've been interested in the real story about this for while. I wrote about it back in December of 2004. Is the government really counting all the people who have died in Iraq? They use the number 1742 now, but my understanding is that they don't count US military personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals.
According to this guy (link) US military personal who died in German hospitals is 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.
I don't know enough about his data, maybe it includes all the military in Europe, maybe it included people who die of non-war related causes but I would like this info clarified.
Jumping from 1742 to almost 8,000 might get people's attention unlike the 2 here or 30 there doesn't. Bush is from Texas, he understands the power of BIG.
According to this guy (link) US military personal who died in German hospitals is 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005.
I don't know enough about his data, maybe it includes all the military in Europe, maybe it included people who die of non-war related causes but I would like this info clarified.
Jumping from 1742 to almost 8,000 might get people's attention unlike the 2 here or 30 there doesn't. Bush is from Texas, he understands the power of BIG.
4 Comments:
Senor Spocko,
This particular rumor has been attempted to be put down several times by the folks at Icasualties.org . Check out Kos, Here for full info.
I've heard rumors tbrnews is a Rovian disinformation source, and this is an attempt at misdirection of real facts similar to the Killian memos.
Lots of people are killed and thousands more injured for life. So how do you take the thunder from the critics? Start a false media buzz that the real number is "even more", and discredit it loudly, making the real number seem relatively trivial to the bobbleheads.
These Dominionist clowns use every trick they can.
Some more interesting info on TBR News care of Kos.
Walter Storch
Thanks jason and Kelley B.
The view that this is a Rovian disinformation campaign is just spooky. It is also the reason why I asked if anyone knew more. Thank you both for the links.
The whole inflating the number in a fake way is in the same catagory as finding a person you can discredit and then giving them the information. Like the guy who wrote the book "Fortunate Son"
It is scary to think that someone would sink that low, but why not? We can imagine it, why can't they?
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