Their list of media sources is long, but it’s unlikely 
    that most of these sources have trusted reporters doing 
    independent, original, eye-witness reporting throughout 
    Iraq (e.g., the Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Los Angeles 
    Times). So it’s not likely that all stories are really 
    from independent sources. They consider as news sources 
    commondreams.org (“Breaking news & views for the 
    progressive community”) and intellnet.org (now defunct 
    with the message “well folks, that time in my life has 
    finally arrived; I have finally graduated and found 
    employment…”), and the famously anti-American Al Jazeera. 

    By their accounting, if a group of Saddam loyalists or 
    terrorists went from house to house murdering 
    indiscriminately, they count that exactly as though a 
    coalition soldier pulled the trigger. Are these 
    equivalent? Not a chance. 

   “The test for us remains whether the bullet (or 
    equivalent) is attributed to a piece of weaponry where 
    the trigger was pulled by a US or allied finger, or is 
    due to "collateral damage" by either side (with the 
    burden of responsibility falling squarely on the 
    shoulders of those who initiate war without UN Security 
    Council authorization). … In short, we record all 
    civilians deaths attributed to our military intervention 
    in Iraq.” If one has a different interpretation of “those 
    who initiate war without UN Security Council 
    authorization”, then the numbers are meaningless. 

    Technically, Iraq didn’t comply with the conditions for 
    the first Gulf War’s cease-fire, nor with a dozen other 
    UN Resolutions. Finally, Bush gave Saddam the 48-hour 
    ultimatum to seek exile, and it was his refusal that led 
    to war. Any of these facts technically and/or morally 
    shift the burden of responsibility, making the entire 
    project meaningless. 

    Taking that same statement to its logical conclusion, if 
    we were to shift the burden of responsibility, then by 
    their own statements, we could carpet-bomb Fallujah and 
    they would put every civilian death “squarely on the 
    shoulders” of Saddam. Yeah, right.

    Their standard would apply equally to our actions in 
    Afghanistan, too. We didn’t get explicit UN permission 
    there either.

    My conclusion: anti-American propaganda.