From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2003 - 05:57:16 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote,
> At 11:01 PM 6/3/03 -0700, Spike wrote:
> >With all
> >those embedded reporters, there is almost no battle footage.
> >The whole episode was fiction, there was no war. Clearly
> >the winner: humanity. Technology has made war almost
> >bloodless.
>
> Oh dear oh dear. Spike, you must have been watching different
> news programs
> than the ones available in Australia. No battle footage, but plenty of
> horrible pictures of numb amputated children with no footage and in one
> case at least no armage either.
The actual death toll is hard to calculate. For the first time, the U.S.
State department refuses to publish numbers. Surveys in Iraq are still
incomplete, but those performing them don't see this as a bloodless war. In
fact, the death rate is probably higher than in the first Gulf War, and may
be the worst since Viet Nam. These surveys are also finding evidence of
massive use of cluster bombs in populated, despite the U.S. insistence that
they were only used in unpopulated areas. Even if these numbers are
exaggerated, it is clear that this was not a bloodless war. This is a
distorted impression given by the U.S. media which was instructed not to
show dead bodies or give death tolls as in previous wars. In the lack of
these reports, many people seem to assume there were few casualties.
<http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Iraq/052203_surveys_pointing_to_high_civ
ilian_death_toll.htm>
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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