...That you are a dead Iraqi in Iraq rather than a dead American.
What was it Tony Snow said?.... "It's only a number" Iraqi Death Toll Over 50,000, 'L.A. Times' Reveals http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002727786# By E&P Staff Published: June 24, 2006 11:05 PM ET NEW YORK At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S. invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies, the Los Angeles Times reports today. This is "a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration," the newspaper declares. "The toll, which is dominated by civilians but probably also includes some security forces and insurgents, is daunting: Proportionately, it's as if 600,000 Americans had been killed nationwide during the last three years," the Times observes. In the same period, at least 2,520 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, including three today and 17 this week. "Many more Iraqis are believed to have been killed but have not been counted because of serious lapses in recording the number of deaths in the chaotic first year after the invasion, when there was no functioning Iraqi government, and continued spotty reporting nationwide," the Times relates. Health Ministry figures for May shows the rate of war-related deaths nearly tripling nationwide, from 334 in May 2004 to 1,154 last month. E&P Staff
