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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: jlallen who wrote (14855)9/23/2002 5:36:01 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (2) of 93284
 
The Professor who can not count straight...
weeklystandard.com.

Piss poor editorial. And it certainly does not say that the study was a fabrication. Or even close to it. So we know where that came from.

The prof's study certainly acknowledges that there are different estimates for any event and the estimates change over time. This is not a surprise. Nor is it unusual for the Administration to change it's mind on who was or who was not hit. One can be optimistically kind, and say that's a fact of life. Information in a war zone is not perfect.

And then there is this nonsense from Joshua Muravchik: ...some of our foreign "friends" to believe the worst about America.

What propaganda! No one has heard of civilian casualties in a war? Maybe civilian casualties is something that Joshua ever imagined, but he's a rare breed.

If this is an issue, it's one that the Administration brought on themselves. The US policy is that we neither count or can reliably estimate military or civilian casualties. Hence there is no US estimate on any casualties in Afghanistan. Somehow though, Rumsfeld can claim that there were fewer civilian casualties in Afghanistan than any other war. How can he make that claim, knowing that there are no estimates in the DoD for civilian casualties? Did he divine it?

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