"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:53:35 -0500, "Josh Dougherty"
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"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:53:15 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
Alan Minyard wrote:

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:50:19 +0200, "Yama"
wrote:

Let it be absolutely clear that this most recent war killed LOT
more
than
5000 people. But hey, lets not get the facts on the way of a good
rant.

What is your source for casualty numbers?

Any time anyone tells us that more than a couple of thousand people
were
killed during the war, it means "iraqbodycount.net."

Of course, they can only *name* a few hundred out of that number, and
their entire methodology stinks (lots of double-counting), but a lot
of
the loonier folks swear by it.

Not to mention that they include all deaths, including postwar attacks
by terrorists who are going after Iraqis and theoretical health
problems
(they included that in their methodology, but the dire warnings of
infrastructure and health system collapse never happened).

Thanks, that is what I thought :-))

Al Minyard

I know it's easy to accept whatever comes along that confirms an existing
prejudice, but you should use a little more discretion before immediately
accepting the claims of someone that is making up 'facts' as he goes
along,
just because those 'facts' support what you already thought, or would
like
to believe.

You come here with your fantastic, fictional claims and then berate me for
accepting facts. That is utterly stupid.
Get a life.

Which "fantastic, fictional claims" are you referring to? Please point them
out to me.

And yes I berate you for blindly accepting "facts" (iow fantastic fictional
claims such as "lots of double-counting") simply because they support your
pre-existing prejudice.