Comments on: That “Grim Milestone” Horse-Manure Mantra Is Being Revved Up Again http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/03/that-grim-milestone-horse-manure-mantra-is-being-revved-up-again/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Ben Keeler http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/03/that-grim-milestone-horse-manure-mantra-is-being-revved-up-again/#comment-28858 Ben Keeler Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:47:37 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/03/that-grim-milestone-horse-manure-mantra-is-being-revved-up-again/#comment-28858 agreed, Tom. Great post. agreed, Tom. Great post.

]]> By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/03/that-grim-milestone-horse-manure-mantra-is-being-revved-up-again/#comment-28797 TBlumer Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:47:32 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/03/that-grim-milestone-horse-manure-mantra-is-being-revved-up-again/#comment-28797 Of course they do, and they are much fewer than the "300,000 people ..... thought to have been killed during Saddam Hussein's regime": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3738368.stm THOSE 300,000 don't include probably hundreds of thousands of others who died under the sanctions regime who would have lived had Saddam not diverted Oil for Food money to palaces and weapons programs. The Iraq Body Count civilian body counters actually claim about 42,000 - 46,000: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ But back to the topic of the post; the benchmarking of US soldiers' deaths against only the Sept. 11 victims is bogus. Of course they do, and they are much fewer than the “300,000 people ….. thought to have been killed during Saddam Hussein’s regime”:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3738368.stm

THOSE 300,000 don’t include probably hundreds of thousands of others who died under the sanctions regime who would have lived had Saddam not diverted Oil for Food money to palaces and weapons programs.

The Iraq Body Count civilian body counters actually claim about 42,000 - 46,000:

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

But back to the topic of the post; the benchmarking of US soldiers’ deaths against only the Sept. 11 victims is bogus.

]]> By: cuzzin http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/03/that-grim-milestone-horse-manure-mantra-is-being-revved-up-again/#comment-28789 cuzzin Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:39:25 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/03/that-grim-milestone-horse-manure-mantra-is-being-revved-up-again/#comment-28789 so this means that 30,000 = dead Iraqui civilans don't count as human? so this means that 30,000 = dead Iraqui civilans don’t count as human?

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