My number of dead Iraqis is bigger than yours

The Iraq Body Count is in a snit because the new study published by the Lancet regarding the 655,000 excess deaths seriously trumps the numbers they have been publishing.  There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with the methodology of the new study, which was made in the face of a determined American effort not to publicize what is really going on.  Americans are obviously morally responsible for the deaths caused by their own troops (all the deaths follow from a completely illegal invasion justified on the basis of what everybody now acknowledges was a pack of lies), as well as those deaths caused as a result of the sectarian violence which followed the American attack on Iraq. The number of deaths caused by America dwarfs any number of deaths that might have been caused by Saddam over the same period. The carnage is intentional, required so the Zionists can achieve their goal of breaking Iraq into three parts. 

It is so typical that the ‘progressives’ end up in a pissing match over the numbers, paralleling the bizarre attempts by the right to debunk the study (something like: ‘we didn’t murder 655,000 innocent civilians, it was only 497,000!’). These attempts put the Bush apologists in the same position as the guy who answers the question ‘when did you stop beating your wife?’  The Iraq Body Count now finds itself helping the right-wingers.  Nice going!  If you have their counter on your website, it is time to take if off.

If you take the Lancet study numbers and add to it the Afghanistan numbers, and a few more people dead here and there due to the Bush Administration, and remember that Bush is only three quarters done, you are left with the inescapable conclusion that George Bush is one of the greatest mass murderers in modern times, up there with guys like Pol Pot.  Americans finally have something to be proud of!