[Southack]

"In its report, the United Nations said 14,338 civilians had died violently in Iraq in the first six months of the year."

Hey, it wasn't just your math. I'm quoting the Chronicle/TraitorTimes article above which lists a 6 month total.

That 6 month total averages 78.5 people killed per day (they lead off with the more dramatic "more than 100" for just June, of course).

But wait...once you dig into their article you learn that even the pro-Al Qaeda Times admits that those figures INCLUDE THE INSURGENTS THAT WE ARE KILLING IN IRAQ!

[Southack]

"The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, an independent Web site that uses news reports to do its tallies, reported that at least 840 Iraqi civilians died in June, compared with an all-time high of 1,100 the previous month."

Buried down at the bottom of the TraitorTimes article is a breakdown of the non-insurgent deaths in Iraq, i.e. the number of actual civilians killed in Iraq.

840/30=28 per day.

That's right. Once you filter through the festering garbage in the NYTimes/HoustonChron article, you learn that 28 civilians and 72 Al Qaeda fighters are being killed, on average, per day in Iraq over the past month.

Of course, the TraitorTimes lumps them altogether...after all...Al Qaeda fighters don't wear uniforms. So "guys in civilian clothes" are being killed at the rate of 100 per day over the past month.

[edzo4]

more BS from the lamestream media, the obvious point of the story though is that so few US soldiers are dying the US news media had to scury to find something else to twist into bad news...