Casualty Report

[Wolf]

I'm just going to pin up the total casualty report here, so we have an accurate frame of reference. CNN updates it every now and then, and they have a pretty fair graphical analysis that is useful, as well.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

[Wolf]

Oh, and it's sticky. Thank you very much, moderators!

[DukeLeto]

Good idea!

Although it should be noted that this list doesn't include Iraqi and civilian casualties.  Perhaps I shall attempt to find such a list...

[Wolf]

Good luck. I've tried, but all I could really come up with were really biased estimates, or plainly inaccurate reports. If you can find something that's corroborated from both a Coalition and an Iraqi source, I commend you.

[SurlyPIG]

There's always www.iraqbodycount.org but they don't seem very objective to me.

[Wolf]

The numbers appear accurate to me, but they obviously are biased.

[lowzeewee]

It doesn't matter if they are biased, just accurate and truthful numbers are enough...

Biased towards Iraq?

[Wolf]

Probably biased against the Coalition.

From what I've seen, few people could possibly be biased towards Iraq. Since the world's choices were, make war on them, or leave them to Saddam.

[Dante]

Assassinate Saddam, maybe? Cheaper, less trouble, less effort, etc... Read a newspaper article todays complaining about the lack of records of civilian Iraqis killed... *Tries to find article.*

[Wolf]

If we really wanted to, we could try to dig up news on every attack and try to assemble some sort of list, so we didn't have to worry about bias. Imagine the task that would be!

[nemafakei]

Or we could set up our own Fed2k news service, and go to Iraq ourselves!

[Wolf]

Mmmmmm... no, but, thank you!

[lowzeewee]

And watch our "News Agency Chief Executive" get beheaded! :O

And watch an eskimo and a yeti setting up a fake 'Prisoner Torture' scene to satisfy their sadism. ;D

[Terror]

Iraq would be a great place for all who are fans of the fremen. They could then sneak in and gather some news there, and maybe be lucky enough to escape the sandworms living in the desert there and being able to report the news to the Dune2k Committee, to be eventually declined and you losing your precious water.

[Ninja_Sher]

Iraq would be a great place for all who are fans of the fremen. They could then sneak in and gather some news there, and maybe be lucky enough to escape the sandworms living in the desert there and being able to report the news to the Dune2k Committee, to be eventually declined and you losing your precious water.

Hey man speak carefully or our yankee friends might think we are comparing them with harkonnens, so shhhh :-X

[Egeides]

How come CNN reports one sides death and not the other? Is it not exactly what should be called unbalanced/biased? :O

[Wolf]

I think its because CNN is not given accurate reports about the other side. They simply do not have the data to make any report on Iraqi casualties. They've reported on estimates of Iraqi deaths before, but almost never on specifics. If you want, go through each CNN newscast on Iraq and add up the total number of confirmed Iraqi dead.

[Caid Ivik]

Yesterday there was a mortar attack against our soldiers. Three died, alongside with two Poles and a Latvian. Sounds weirdly, but it's worst combat casualty of slovak army since WW2.

[Anathema]

The Dutch force has only been attacked once so far, and the body count holds at 1.

[exatreide]

Wow hardass's....Whats america's at? 700?  :P

I heard south Korea is sending 3,000 troops to aid in reconstruction.

[ExSPlug]

They will still do so even after the beheading...

[Wolf]

Here's an interesting story;

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/07/02/erwin.ambush/index.html

[Wolf]

1,000 Coalition casualties in Iraq today.

Oddly enough, this is also my 1,000th post.

[DRFsimmsy]

CNN is pure disinformation.

[thomas]

prove it. Cnn is actually quite reliable and a hell of a lot better than Fox news, though I prefer the BBC over CNN