The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Monday, November 15, 2004  

CASUALTY-FREE WAR
On Not Counting Iraqis

A striking graphic accompanies the top story in today's Philadelphia Inquirer, "Fallujah Occupied But Not Subdued" (by Dogen Hannah and Tom Lasseter).

The graphic is not reproduced on the paper's web site, but one can glean the published figures from the article. The sidebar reads: Death Toll. Estimated casulaties since the Fallujah siege began, according to U.S. military: 38 U.S. soldiers, 6 Iraqi soldiers, 1,200 guerrillas.

In the article itself we learn, "In addition, the dismembered body of a woman, perhaps a Westerner, was found in the battered city yesterday."

So, not one single Iraqi civilian casualty?

Amazing.

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