Enumeration
Here’s Bush from his pep-rally today :
Dozens of political parties are organizing. Hundreds of courts of law are opening across the country. Today in Iraq, more than 170 newspapers are being published, and I saw the other day that they’ve even got talk radio…Our coalition has rehabilitated nearly 2,500 schools, and over 1,200 more should be completed by the end of the year. All of Iraq’s hospitals and most medical clinics are open and are serving the people.
So we’ve got enough time, manpower, and money to count the number of hospitals, schools, and newspapers, but they still refuse to count the number of civilians killed :
The Pentagon said yesterday that it has no plans to determine how many Iraqi civilians may have been killed or injured or suffered property damage as a result of U.S. military operations in Iraq.
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Before its demise, the Iraqi government reported 1,254 civilian deaths as of April 3. The Bush administration has offered no estimates of its own.“We really don’t know how many civilian deaths there have been, and we don’t know how many of them can be attributed to coalition action, as opposed to action on the part of Iraqi armed forces as they defended themselves,” Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said in a BBC interview Sunday.
Historically, the Pentagon has not tried to count civilian casualties and losses resulting from U.S. military action. Military officials have given various reasons for this, citing principally the time and resources involved and the difficulty of separating damage caused by U.S. forces from damage caused by the enemy.
And they wonder why Iraqis don’t trust us….
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