Learning to Count: The Dead in Iraq

** Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches **

By Dahr Jamail and Jeff Pflueger
t r u t h o u t Perspective

Thursday 13 April 2006

*/I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial
incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis./*
- George W. Bush, December 12, 2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

*Does it count?*

How many Iraqis have died as the result of the Anglo-American invasion
and occupation of their country remains an unresolved question in the
anti-war movement. It is a question the pro-war camp avoids. Yet what
more important question is there?

The above quote made by the "compassionate conservative" shows a
disturbing trend in the corporate media and amongst the spokespersons of
the current powers that be, to camouflage the true cost of the illegal
occupation of Iraq - the cost in blood paid by Iraqis. It is a trend
that ensures that the enormity of the atrocity goes unnoticed.>>> cont

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