Nearly 21 Million Iraqis Not Yet Killed

Ion Zwitter, Avant News Editor

Washington, D.C., November 4, 2006 In a press release issued today by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s special Office of Looking on the Bright Side, the administration pointed out that despite continuing widespread and escalating violence in the chaotic region, nearly 21 million Iraqis have not yet been killed or wounded. This, while a decrease from the 21.5 million not yet killed or wounded highlighted in an earlier announcement, still represents, according to a Rumsfeld spokesmen, "a very large percentage of the populace thus far not yet killed or wounded." (...) Rumsfeld’s Office of Looking on the Bright Side release also pointed out that well over 100,000 U.S. soldiers have not yet been killed or wounded in the ongoing U.S. occupation of Iraq. With the recent planned increases in U.S. troop levels in Iraq, those positive numbers are likely to go even higher...

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