Baghdad Morgue Revises August Death Toll Upward 300 Percent
Baghdad Morgue Revises August Death Toll Upward 300 Percent
Last week, Pentagon spokesmen touted the success of Operation Forward Together, a push to improve security in Baghdad. They cited a significant decrease in the number of bodies the city morgue received as evidence the operation was working. The media picked up on it:
Last month, the Baghdad morgue received more than 1,800 bodies, a record high. This month, the morgue is on track to receive less than a quarter of that. … U.S. Army Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of military forces in Baghdad, attributed the capital’s declining violence to a sweep involving 8,000 U.S. soldiers and 3,000 Iraqi troops aimed at stopping sectarian violence.
It looks like they spoke too soon. According to the ABC News blog, the Baghdad morgue today revised its figures upward a whopping 300 percent:
It turns out the official toll of violent deaths in August was just revised upwards to 1535 from 550, tripling the total. Now, we’re depressingly used to hearing about deaths here, so much so that the numbers can be numbing. But this means that a much-publicized drop-off in violence in August – heralded by both the Iraqi government and the US military as a sign that a new security effort in Baghdad was working – apparently didn’t exist. [...] Violent deaths now appear roughly in line with the earlier trend: 1855 in July and 1595 in June.
President Bush said “the initial results” of the Baghdad opertation were “encouraging.” The revised results paint a different picture.
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Do we just have to assume they lie about everything?
September 6th, 2006 at 5:57 pmThe lying propogandists pressure some poor Iraqi coroner to “officially” release a 500 body count, then when the troops take the M-16s away from the head of the coroner he “revises” (read I’m no longer under the gun) the count to 1535. Bastards.
September 6th, 2006 at 5:59 pmForgive us LORD…please forgive us
This madness must stop!!!!!
September 6th, 2006 at 6:00 pm“Let freedom reign.”
September 6th, 2006 at 6:01 pmNow, how many purple fingers is that? Get back to me after I’m done reading my three Shalespeare’s.
-The Decider
September 6th, 2006 at 6:04 pm“It’s a number” – Tony Snow
September 6th, 2006 at 6:07 pmDo we just have to assume they lie about everything?
Yes.
Yes you do.
September 6th, 2006 at 6:08 pmALL THE BUSH ADMINISTATION DOES
IS LIE LIE LIE
September 6th, 2006 at 6:10 pmJeesh, full blown martial law and still the place is in full meltdown.
Heckuva job Crumbsfeld.
-GSD
September 6th, 2006 at 6:16 pmThe bigger picture here is that the strategy as laid out by RUMSFELD, the one where if we just “fight harder” which in reality means breaking down doors, beating people in their homes, dragging grandpa into the street and down to Abu Gharib to “disappear, curfews that prevent looking for food/water/medical care between 9PM and 8AM doesn’t work. So the next time Bush et al say we need to stay in Iraq because somehow our precense will “help” , this is a concrete example of the failureof that policy.
September 6th, 2006 at 6:17 pmAnother lie and a deadly one at that. Bush and company should be hauled up on war crimes as soon as they can be thrown from office.
September 6th, 2006 at 6:20 pmYes, we must believe that whatever they tell us is a distortion, is less than truthful, is propaganda, or an outright lie.
September 6th, 2006 at 6:23 pmBetter go back to not ‘doing body counts’ – someone might think these untermensch actually count for something. /sarcasm off
September 6th, 2006 at 6:28 pmIt is beyond my ability to comprehend that people still defend this administration and their deceptive, unwarranted, ill-conceived, poorly planned, unnecessary invasion of Iraq.
September 6th, 2006 at 6:29 pmHow does what they did (in our name) differ from a war crime?
Saddam Hussein’s murderous regime doesn’t compare with what is the result of arrogance and warmongering of Bush&Co.
Remember, Hussein killed many innocent people who were connected (in his estimation) with an attempt on his life. The man was a horror. But the country functioned for most citizens.
What Bush&Co have wrought is unconsionable, inexcusable.
#15 I agree, Marie. At first I thought, “How could any human being defend this administration?” Then i realized that I answered my own question. They are inhuman.
September 6th, 2006 at 6:34 pmI recently read an interview with someone from one of the “Islamofacist” states. It was heart rending to read. They have been marginalized and turned against each other. All for a lie. All to prop a false image to generate hate.
One question we are left with is this: Why has the Bush Cabal brought violence to those who could and would do us no harm?
September 6th, 2006 at 6:39 pm[...] Well, sure enough, the news was too good to be true. In Iraq it’s always worse than we are initially told. Via Think Progress comes this: It turns out the official toll of violent deaths in August was just revised upwards to 1535 from 550, tripling the total. Now, we’re depressingly used to hearing about deaths here, so much so that the numbers can be numbing. But this means that a much-publicized drop-off in violence in August – heralded by both the Iraqi government and the US military as a sign that a new security effort in Baghdad was working – apparently didn’t exist. […] Violent deaths now appear roughly in line with the earlier trend: 1855 in July and 1595 in June. [...]
September 6th, 2006 at 6:42 pmFreedom is on the march!
September 6th, 2006 at 6:50 pmThe lies are the norm now; truth is sadly gone from this administration and anything it touches. This is just one of the daily faux pas for which they are infamous…..Nice try, though….gotta hand it to hardened criminals – they just keep trying the same game over….and over…..and over……and over…
September 6th, 2006 at 6:52 pmCan we believe ANYTHING we read or hear on television any longer???? I suspect that the answer, sadly, is ABSOLUTELY NOT!
This country has changed so unbelievably (for the worse) in soooooo short a time. Amazing!
September 6th, 2006 at 6:53 pmI agree that if ABC and the GOP want to essentially “reopen” the can of worms surrounding 9/11, then they’re asking for trouble. There are far too many irregularities, half truth, fantasy time lines, and a President sitting on his laurels while he reads My Pet Goat to a group of second graders to care when he knew the WTC was being hit. I really don’t think they want to go there again! People have way too much time to do their own investigating and connect their own dots so they will get what they deserve if they persist with bringing this tragedy under a finer microscope.
Be careful what you ask for GOP!
Boycott ABC – Boycott Disney
September 6th, 2006 at 6:57 pm“Baghdad Morgue Revises August Death Toll Upward 300 Percent”
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*******Listen closely…..you’ll hear the sounds of gleeful clapping and cheering coming from prog closets and basements while they continue to assure the American public they DO NOT relish bad news……
September 6th, 2006 at 7:57 pmFreedom an the march can be a real bitch with all those bodies to march around. Iraq is a failed policy and Bush’s legacy.
September 6th, 2006 at 8:15 pmBush lies.
However, you should check your math. Tripling is a 200% increase. A 300% increase is quadrupling. The actual correction is slightly less than 200 %.
The new report is terrible terrible news. Almost as appalling is the fact that Ayatollah Sistani, the only person who might be able to stop the killing by Shi’ites, has just officially given up. I really don’t see any way this is going to end without tens or hundreds of thousands more deaths.
September 6th, 2006 at 8:51 pmMighty Asshat is back. you know for an evil subhuman who advocates killing innocent men, women, and children she seems awfully elated stating that “you’ll hear the sounds of gleeful clapping and cheering coming from prog closets and basements”. See asshat, you’re using projection as a defense mechanism. You’re happy people are dying and projecting your love for drinking the blood of the innocent on “those evil progressives”. I think we’ve made progress here, two thousand more sessions and a wooden stake and you may be cured.
September 6th, 2006 at 9:15 pmThis is after committing over 10,000 combined Iraqi and US troops to the ’security crackdown’.
September 6th, 2006 at 10:00 pmShiiiiiiiiittttttttt!
Can you spell klusterf**k?
It’s FUBAR, sir!
Just more muzzies killing muzzies…
September 6th, 2006 at 10:02 pmLet em kill each other with their “peaceful” religion
Go to http://www.sabbah.biz/mt/ for the other side.
September 6th, 2006 at 10:12 pmOr try http://www.bendib.com for political cartoons that are relevant.
Violence is the primitive method way of settling an argument.
Aphrotranny, liberals aren’t the ones killing thousands at a crack.
September 6th, 2006 at 10:12 pmSo smart Gelmann. And I am assuming “muzzie” is a derogatory term. Love they neighbor, you hateful M:)therf:)cker.
September 6th, 2006 at 10:14 pmI have an idea! If eventually everyone in Iraq dies, then we can all take solace in the fact that there will be no one dying!
Ugh :(
September 6th, 2006 at 10:41 pmWhy didn’t the press question the amazingly low (and incorrect) morgue count number? I knew it wasn’t going to hold up, was I the only person?
September 6th, 2006 at 11:25 pmtest
September 6th, 2006 at 11:36 pmBush has turned Iraq into a living Hell > I feel sorry for everyone who lives in Iraq, because they have no jobs, no future, and can be killed by anybody without any warning!
September 6th, 2006 at 11:55 pmHow sad. How horribly sad. All those lives wasted in a war of choice.
When will the Bush apologists recognize that those “terrorists” American troops are fighting in Iraq are ordinary Iraqis? Doesn’t it seem odd to them to be fighting the very same people Pres Bush claims to be liberating?
And I see Mity Coprolite is unhinged yet again. It is really funny to read her posts feigning sympathy for Iraqis when she defends the ongoing occupation and stood by the idea that Baghdad was safer than Washington D.C.
September 7th, 2006 at 12:21 am#38 I see your test Gregor. TP is still blocking my main IP. I was able to get on from another office in Calgary, so that says it’s not my company stopping me… TP still denies they are blocking me….
September 7th, 2006 at 12:38 am#40, and Mighty Arsewipe will defend the doctrine of “to the last Iraqi” to the death of, well “the last Iraqi”. Crocodile tears.
September 7th, 2006 at 12:39 amRevised up to 1535…and they’re probably still lying about the true number.
September 7th, 2006 at 1:57 amRemember, these numbers are for the city of Baghdad alone and not Iraq. Iraqis killed in July numbered nearly 3,500. Numbers also do not include those who died indirectly due to US invasion and occupation (due to lack of clean water or healthcare, for example). The head of The Lancet/Johns Hopkins study said the number would be about 200,000 up to February 2006.
September 7th, 2006 at 1:59 amThursday on Antiwar.com
http://antiwar.com
- Bush Plays Down al-Qaeda as Threat
September 7th, 2006 at 4:42 am- Bush Admits Secret CIA Prisons, Pushes for Military Tribunals
- Pakistan Agrees to Amnesty for al-Qaeda, Taliban
- Pentagon Strategy Chief: ‘War’ Language Boosts Terrorists
- Israel Accuses Lebanon of Violating Ceasefire
- Unwillingness to Attack Civilian Planes Forces Israel to End Blockade
- Sunnis Enraged as Iraq Prepares to Split
- French, Americans Back Last Resort Iran Strike
- Russia: Iran Sanctions Must Exclude Force
- Iran Abruptly Postpones Talks With EU
- Poll: For Americans, No Side Wins in Afghanistan
- US Launches Attack in East Afghanistan
- Ronald Bailey: From Republic to Empire?
- Martin Sieff: Adrift in a Complex War
- Robert Scheer: Afghanistan: High on Opium, Not Democracy
- Simon Jenkins: Talk to Mullah Omar, if It Saves British Soldiers’ Lives
- Thomas Gale Moore: What Is Victory?
- Karen Kwiatkowski: Preaching, Pondering, and Predicting
- Robert Parry: Al-Qaeda’s ‘Simon Says’
and much more
216,676 Iraqis killed
September 7th, 2006 at 4:43 am390,017 Iraqis wounded
“the Bagdad operation“? They’ve definitely been operatin’ for a mighty long time by now… might wonna check if the patient is still alive…
September 7th, 2006 at 5:03 amIt is up to everyone of us to talk about this to everyone you know who still believes we are in the most democratic…free nation in the world!
BUSHCO and and their puppet masters (Illuminati) have spent billions dumbing us down to this point in history…herding us together like sheeple to fight their wars and generate wealth for the elite so vast, entire nations suffer. It is the most grotesque human endeavor conceived, and WE have the ability to stop it!
WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO STOP THIS!! If you will convince yourselves of this…things will change.
“Things don’t change..if things don’t change!”
The problem is we haven’t COLLECTIVELY put our minds and spirit to the task of becoming ONE VOICE against this corruption. Once we do…we take the power away from a few and spread it to all!
September 7th, 2006 at 7:53 amWho released these phony numbers in the first place, and isn’t it convenient that it was timed so that Bush could trumpet the success of the mission? I’m all for fewer dead people and the success of the mission, but not if it is a freaking fairy tale….
September 7th, 2006 at 8:29 amI know this is off topic a little… but I just caught the end of a CBS news cast on the radio and I heard something to the effect that the Iranian president wants to get rid of all liberal professors in Iran colleges and from all performing arts. Did anyone else hear this? Do you think it’s cause for alarm?
September 7th, 2006 at 9:29 amIn yesterdays speech, did Mr. Bush say that there needs to be legislation to protect individuals from war crime charges?
Is he setting the stage to protect himself and this administration from war crime charges?
Not much being said about this out there that I can find.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:12 am[...] A much publicized drop-off in violence in Iraq in August, heralded by both the Iraqi government and the US military as a sign that a new security effort in Baghdad was working- apparently doesn’t exist. Bush never listened to the facts before he opened his big mouth before…why should he start now? [...]
September 7th, 2006 at 10:15 amNo surprises here!
Not only must one assume that this administartion and all it’s servants LIE, it is also easy to predict their actions these days.
If a choice is bad, if it will be counterproductive and cause maximum harm and costs, then such a choice beckons to these morons like a siren song.
Alwasy assume the worst with these maniacs and you won’t often be dissapointed.
Those who are asking God to forgive the USA, are being a bit presumptuous. I think you need to stop doing the evil things before asking God to forgive you. While the USA is in the midst of a war of occupation against Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon by proxy, as well as getting Iran and Syria into the gun sights now, it is not the time to be asking or expecting forgiveness.
Sadly it has reached the point where many people about the world are wishing for the destruction of the USA and Israel, for otherwise we are all lost. In fact we are praying for the destruction of these two monster states. Sorry to the good people who still live there, but for the sake of the world you may end up as collateral damage.
September 7th, 2006 at 12:05 pmSounds like fun!!!
September 7th, 2006 at 12:39 pmAnother sidelight, Bin Laden, in his tape sent to Al Jazeera ( the one that actually looks like him) denied any involvement in 9/11. He has taken credit for many attacks, why would he deny this one if he did it?
September 7th, 2006 at 5:46 pmyou are all fools…if you think any of this was not premeditated a loooong time ago…they are not all idiots and making mistakes….every single step was planned out….a violent and bloody revolution is the only solution…yet you are all FAR TOO WEAK to ever do it….good luck…I will see you in the gulag…..
September 8th, 2006 at 2:24 amTo ‘Tony Snow’ loser and his f***d up comment @ #6:
Because of brainless, spineless and degenerated creatures like you, the world is going downhill.
Would you still then call it a number if your family would be among that number?
And now, have a nice day, loser!
September 8th, 2006 at 3:54 amHow many people did Saddam kill? How many Iraqis AND Americans have been killed in the name of George Bush? What’s wrong with this picture: Saddam Hussein in jail and on trial, George Bush still in the White House and on the campaign trail? Guess it’s bad when Saddam Hussein does it, but okay when George Bush does. There’s really something very wrong with this scenario. Oh right, I forgot, George wears the white hat. That makes it okay.
September 8th, 2006 at 9:55 amWhy I am not shocked? The US Government has been lying so long I don’t believe a word they say about Iraq. How horrible that this bloodshed continues. Get the US out of Iraq and let the people who are for peace come and do some real work towards helping this country.
September 8th, 2006 at 10:36 am[...] A record number of Iraqi civilians were reported killed in October. “Statistics issued by the Interior Ministry for Iraqis killed in political violence put civilian deaths last month at 1,289. That is nearly 42 a day and is up 18% from the 1,089 seen in September. September’s figures themselves were a record high.” In Baghdad, the morgue reported the official toll of violent deaths in August was 1535, a level in line with previous months. [...]
November 17th, 2006 at 9:53 am