This morning I was watching CBC and one of the guys was interviewing Scott Lipscomb, one of the creators of Iraq Body Count. His questions were tricky and tripping and I was wondering what the journalist really wanted; I mean, it’s his job to inquire, but I was getting kind of upset because I had the feeling he was minimizing the impact of the civilian deaths in Iraq.
The facts are simple: The count goes up to more than 500 civilian casualties in this war and that is all that matters. But the worse thing is that this number could be much smaller than the real one and I don’t see anything but its coming up every day with so much bombing of public places where normal people, like you and I, are living their lives in the country of Iraq… While Saddam is nowhere in sight.
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