Irak: Det går bedre og bedre og bedre

Bistroisten kritiserer en af Irak-krigens sædvanlige klakører og besvarer fremragende "spørgsmålet" om, hvad alternativet til at gå ind i Irak ville have været: Øhm, æhm .... at lade være? I dag er det svært at se som et ligefrem dårligere alternativ.

Vores bistroistiske kollega henviser også til en pressemeddelse fra Iraq Body Count, der opsummerer det sidste års udvikling under overskriften Year Four: Simple The Worst:

Summary

On every available indicator the year just ended (March 2006 – March 2007) has been by far the worst year for violence against civilians in Iraq since the invasion:

almost half (44%) of all violent civilian deaths after the initial invasion phase occurred in the just-ended fourth year of the conflict
mortar attacks that kill civilians have quadrupled in the last year (from 73 to 289)
massive bomb blasts that kill more than 50 people have nearly doubled in the last year (from 9 to 17)
fatal suicide bombs, car bombs, and roadside bombing attacks have doubled in the last year (from 712 to 1476)
one in 160 of Baghdad’s 6.5 million population has been violently killed since the beginning of the war, representing 64% of deaths recorded so far

These are the stark headlines derived from Iraq Body Count’s ongoing compilation and analysis of media reports of civilian casualties in the Iraq conflict, which has documented 65,000 violent deaths to date.

Det skal bemærkes, at Iraq Body Counts tal må betragtes som en absolut nedre grænse, idet de kun medtager dødsfald, der er bekræftet af to uafhængige kilder - og mange irakere er så hensynsfulde ikke at lade deres død rapportere, og da slet ikke to gange.

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Irak: Det går bedre og bedre og bedre

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