Comments on: Ha, Ha, Ha! Oops! (Iraq Edition)

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:52:40 +0000

They always have to admit to at least one death because there will be footage somewhere of a body being carried off. They are banking on the fact that all the casualties weren’t lined up for a photo…and that we aren’t really paying attention

By: sarabeth

sarabeth — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:50:13 +0000

This is hilarious. WaPo has cunningly concealed that story I quoted. The link now points to a totally different Iraq story.

But I wasn’t born yesterday. And my mama didn’t raise no fools. I saved a screenshot of

Elsewhere in the capital on Thursday, a truck bomb destroyed a bridge over the Tigris River, killing at least one person and severing a link between the now Shiite-dominant eastern side of Baghdad with the Sunni-dominant west.

By: Satan luvvs Repugs

Satan luvvs Repugs — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:11:51 +0000

The other casualties have been declared “unpersons” postumously, so they don’t count.

It’s sort of like declaring someone an “enemy combatant”, except a bit more perminant.

By: Iraq & The Mysterious Dropping Death Tolls | The Moderate Voice

Iraq & The Mysterious Dropping Death Tolls | The Moderate Voice — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:04:57 +0000

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