Talking in the Dark
As a follow-up to tonight’s bloggy radio discussion, a compendium from the National Security Network highlighting just how unreliable are claims that violence is dropping in Iraq.
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Comment by JohnnyPee —
September 1, 2007 @ 12:22 pm
Interesting article. It’s quite true that it is often difficult to gauge exactly how many civilians and unofficial combatants are lost on a day-to-day basis, even in the course of a low-mid level conflict like Iraq.
Unfortunately the selectivity of the quotations is of real concern and the sources used - primarily media reports - are not any more reliable than government statistics, however contradictory.