NEWS: Success! Only 20,000 Kidnapped in Iraq Since January

POLITICS: Success! Only 20,000 Kidnapped in Iraq Since January

A report prepared by a group of 125 non-governmental organizations in Iraq has discovered some shocking numbers. 20,000 Iraqis, who don’t seem to understand they are better off not living under Saddam Hussein, have been kidnapped.

The report states 80 percent of the current violence is politically motivated. Civil war, anyone?

The survey does not record the number of people killed but on-line website Iraqbodycount.org has estimated that between 34,511 and 38,660 civilians have lost their lives since the invasion. That count is taken from media reports. No word on whether the dead think they are “better off.”

but it doesn't cross your mind to...you know...blame the fucking kidnappers!!!!

nah

course not

why not go the whole hog and cite the Lancet "pick a number between 1 and 200,000" survey

again - most of these deaths were caused by terrorists, the death rate is shrinking as Zarqawi's boys are being crushed, more and more Iraqi troops are completing their training and the country is lurching closer to recovery every day...much as that makes the left completely distraught



[Edited on Apr 25, 2006 by UpTight]

Yup. Things have really turned a corner there. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Victory is almost at hand. Another half-dozen secret prisons and a couple more divisions of Iraqi death squads and the Middle East will be well on its way to democracy.

I take it all back.

[Edited on Apr 25, 2006 2:40PM]

I'm all for personal responsibility, but sometimes when things go really, really bad there is more than one finger behind the trigger.

Anyway, I'm bored of Iraq. Bring on the sequel.

suggestion/ betting pool

I got iran for 10 bucks !

anybody going for syria ?

Venzuela.

Don't you understand? If we pay attention to what we're doing in Iraq, THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON!

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the US is partly responsible for how things are going but not totally responsible.

please....

ok Chavez isn't a tangible threat to the world like Ahmadinejad is, but just anything to wipe the smug "Garry Shandling" smile off that fat cunt's face would be worth it.

How would you feel if we said that we are bored of hearing about people in Israel being killed by suicide bombs. I think you would have a different opinion in that case.

What a luxury it is, to be bored of the the killing and chaos in Iraq. Imagine if you lived there?

He's not bored. He loves it. Gives him a chance to troll.

MetaTag, I hate to tell you, but you fell for the bait, here...

A sequel of a remake?

There is just no limit on your chauvanistic, self rightous conviction that the West - the US - gets to control the world with its military, is there?

just the people the world needs protecting from...and Hugo Chavez

ideally, it wouldn't be down to Britain and America all the time, but the UN are as much use as tits on a fish

What about the people who think that it is the US and Britain the people in the world need protecting from?

well evidently someone is - cos we hardly hear a thing about suicide bombers in Israel

If I lived there, I'd blame the people killing Iraqis - namely Jordanain and Syrian terrorists

This is what, as a guy who is getting older, I just can't understand about Neo-Cons. All the old conservatives I knew and respected were always very pragmatistic and would complain about liberals being too idealistic. The ideal the neo-cons have about righting the wrongs of the world seems so unrealistic and pipe dreamish. I agree it would be a good thing if we could make all the bad people go away but I dont see any real chance of this happening. Also from a conservative perspective the expense of trying is sure to put us at such a competetive disadvantage economicaly with those we think are so awful.

Sometimes I wonder if Neo Cons just think we cant compete so we need to just use military force.

I have read his answer and you are right

Fingers crossed!

Albuquerque

Fuck it, I'm not responding to your garbage anymore. When you're proven wrong you just ignore it anyway.

[Edited on Apr 25, 2006 by BillHaverchuck]