http://www.iraqbodycount.org/names.php
this is an listing of the IDENTIFIED bodies. Of Civilians killed in Iraq since the invasion. Up to February 2006 meaning the list is a year old.
3,670 individuals, including a minority for whom only a PARTIAL name or Familial relationship could be established.
quote
“In any use of these names please give due honour to the unidentified
dead not in this list whose numbers far exceed these named victims. For
every identified individual on the list there are another 9 confirmed
Iraqi civilians killed for whom we do not have identifying information.
In contrast, virtually every coalition soldier killed can be identified
by name and other biographical information.
There is no
organised effort to name all victims of the war. Only when all have
been identified and duly recorded can there be any talk of respecting
their memory.
To those who knew and loved them, and are in no need of reminding, we offer our condolences.” end quote.
By mentioning that those who are unidentified number at least 9 times as many as are identified, that once again leaves open the Question:
How can the United States Government and The British Crown both insist that every Iraqi killed has been an Insurgent, When they can’t even identify more than 10% of them?
How would you know for sure that somebody is a radical or enemy if you don’t know who the hell he was?
If your smart bombs are so smart that they can’t possibly kill anybody but the Bad Guys, then you would know exactly who the targets were before bombing them, wouldn’t you?
If your agencies had the intelligence as to who they were bombing while they were still alive why are only 10% of them identified, post mortem?
It would make a sick kind of perverted sense to withhold the Identities of people who you have captive, and are torturing for information, but what harm can it do to disclose the names of the Dead?
Who do you think you’re fooling? Ok so I got that last one from a song by Rhymin’ Paul Simon.
The lists are organized into 2 formats, A4 size and US letter size, .pdf files and about 3 megabytes each.
3 and a half thousand out of one estimate of half a million. That’s more like a half a percentage point. Even at the admittedly low estimate of 150 thousand that only ramps it up to just over 2%.
I am reminded of the fellow from Yahoo answers who said that the American Left were more concerned about the Iraqi civilians than “Our Troops”, and too many cameras recording the killings and somehow portraying the Evil Notion that the Iraqi people are… well… People.
and there were a couple of others who posted in the same Answers question that made the Administration talking point that we are over there to help the Iraqis.
If they are there to help the Iraqi people, shouldn’t they actually BE CONCERNED about the people they are “helping”?
That post was deleted by Yahoo!Answers. They never sent me any answer about why it was deleted.