U.S. troops backed by attack aircraft killed 19 suspected insurgents and 15 civilians northwest of Baghdad today. Nine of the dead were children.
Notice that the military dispatch said the "insurgents" were "suspected insurgents." That means, of course, that undoubtedly some of them were not fighters but were also civilians.
Antiwar.com keeps a running tab on the Iraq war. Today, for example, the death toll was:
89 Iraqis
1 GI
That's pretty much the norm. In a war we started, in a country we occupy, the death toll is usually more than 50 Iraqis to 1 American, sometimes a lot more.
And the dead American is usually a soldier; most of the Iraqi dead are civilians.
Why is nobody outraged?
There are numerous reasons for that ratio. Some of those died without any Americans present in the civil war that we refuse to acknowledge is happening. But far too many are directly killed by American forces.
I repeat: Why is nobody outraged at this wanton slaughter?
Posted by Deck at October 11, 2007 09:44 PM