criticalviewertemporally organized thoughts on media, politics, and the arts.The So-Called Insurgency- November 25, 2005 I heard an astonishing thing on NPR a few days ago while driving home from work. They said that the Bush administration has released death counts for insurgents they have killed in Iraq. The number About 700 in the last two months. 700! I'm not sure what I would have expected, but I was blown away by this figure. Here in the US we hear about a few US military casualties each day, and often about some number of civilian deaths due to insurgent attacks (suicide bombers, etc.). But 700...http://www.criticalviewer.com/archives/2005/11/the_socalled_insurgency.html |