Iraq: A 75% Drop In Killing If You Don't Count The Bodies

Published: September 1, 2007, 9:06 am

Tags: iraq, david petraeus, tony snow, george w bush

[Bumped -- Plutonium Page.] With the long-awaited Patraeus White House report on progress in Iraq due in two weeks, Gen. David Patraeus gave new meaning to the expression, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics," when he: ...told the Australian that there had been a 75 percent reduction in religious and ethnic killing since last year You read something like that and ask yourself, how can that be? You remember the more than 50 Iraqis killed at a religious festival the other day, the 500 Yazidis killed two weeks ago, the tortured victims of death squads found throughout Iraq every day and you ask yourself, how can there be a 75% reduction in killings in Iraq? Well, it's easy. You just don't count the bodies. Of course the Bush administration has never made any meaningful effort to track civilian fatalities in Iraq, but as hard as they try to ignore it, the killings continue and the bodies pile up. So where did Gen. Petraeus come

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