we have 50% of the casualties?

[derrald]

What?

Where did THAT come from?

last I checked, 1060 out of 1300 or so, is NOT 50%

[jerryman814]

1. Fuzzy math...

They fudge numbers more than Enron execs...

[rjbny62]

2. he is adding in the Iraqi casualties

[Pirate Smile]

3. He is trying to stick the Iraqi police and NG into the numbers.

[FrozenNorth]

10. Why can't the people who live there be counted?

They are trying to take their country back too. Take it back from the Saddam flunkies and the foreigers pouring in. Most Iraqis want a secular government. Their deaths should not be discounted. They are just as dead and just as worthy of being counted as our troops.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

18. Right. If you really believe that, I've got some fine bridges to sell....

...you out in the Louisiana bayou.

One more point, you don't personally have a clue what the Iraqis want, but I can tell you that they didn't want what happened to them when we invaded.

"Saddam flunkies"???...sounds like Rumsfeld's "dead-enders"...are you getting your material from the same source?

[lumpy]

20. The Iraqi people were not part of

Bush's much hyped 'coalition'. The Iraqi people were the ones who became the enemy.

[AgadorSparticus]

4. he is flat out lying. it's pretty bad.

:mad:

[geomon666]

5. 50%?

Is he trying to say that like that's a good thing? Good lord this man is evil.

[southernleftylady]

6. we have 1064 ALL OTHER COUNTRIES 70 nt

[indigo32]

7. the ONLY way I can figure ANY reality in that would be

as a percentage of troops committed by a given country. Talk about using statistics.
What a fricken LIAR

[FloridaPat]

8. I thought they weren't allowed to count Iraqi casualities! I bet they

worked at week to come up with that one. No one has gone through full training. They refuse to fight their own people!

[lostnfound]

13. INCREDIBLE. I was laughing hard but utterly disgusted, too.

Just about spit out my popcorn when he said that.

Hey Cheney! Iraqi casualties don't COUNT! That's what they keep saying!

[OneTwentyoNine]

9. Cheney you LYING piece of crap --1064 US 158 other...

And that works out to only 50% for the US??? Your math is as crappy as when you pimp those tax cuts.

David

[stanwyck]

11. How many Cheney lies have you counted?

There are so many. Every time he answers, he lies. Does the man not know about videotape? If every "news" station doesn't show Cheney lying...and call him out on it, we'll know that they're total whores. Total. Whores. How can a free country, a great country, let a man just lie and lie to our people? Our Vice President. The man has no respect for us whatsoever.
The hubris is over-whelming.

[against all enemies]

14. "news" stations won't do it.It's up to Kerry/Edwards to run ads showing it

[mmonk]

12. Yes, the invaded

are now being called the coalition I guess.

[ScrewyRabbit]

15. Great, so twice as many people have died in this useless enterprise

than just 1100 US troops. Time to celebrate, Dick...

[Kanary]

16. Debunked on Aaron Brown.

[Hobarticus]

17. After four years of Cheney Math, how can you be surprised?

We're "creating jobs" according to Cheney Math.

We're "funding education" according to Cheney Math.

We're "fucked", according to REAL math.

[Neshanic]

19. He throws THAT out there, why not tell us civilians needlessly killed.

[fujiyama]

21. That part

isn't going to play well with people. People may not be that bright, but they know the difference between some "security forces" that barely exist and the US military which is over there taking casualties.

Most of the security forces are barely trained and while I admire those people greatly for volunteering to try to bring some order to their land, many are being killed when signing up in the first place.

Plus Edwards was talking about "coalition casualties" - meaning those casualties from the countries that invaded Iraq.

One thing people of ALL political stripes know is that the US is paying the heaviest burden for this war and that the other countries simply have NOT contributed much to this effort (and I don't blame them a bit for not doing so).

Cheney came off as an ass and I think anyone should see that the administration is trying to paint a rosy picture out of a situation that is gone way beyond anyone's control. He is minimalizing and trivializing those losses among those that are serving and dying.

[Red Fox]

22. I guess they can also mention a 400% increase of civilian casualties

In Iraq compared to 9/11 (around 12k civilian casualties reported in "collateral damage")

And that's not even including the people who've died indirectly because the "Coalition" is there.

2 can play that game!

[SoCalDem]

23. complete listing here..by country

http://www.pigstye.net/iraq/


printable list (thru Oct 3)

http://www.pigstye.net/iraq/wd1.php

[LynnTheDem]

24. And cheney said the 138 US deaths in Gulf war justified NOT invading Iraq

Amazing how rightwingnuts can so blithely justify ANYTHING, changing as it suits their agenda.

1064 US dead (so far) out of a total (so far) of 1202 "COALITION" soldiers;

**(NOT including Iraqis, cheney, which YOU don't bother counting, cheney...except for tossing in a few when you wish to trivialize our soldiers' deaths, cheney)

88.5% of all coalition deaths are USA.

[Snotcicles]

25. Everyone in the world knows cheney is a liar

it's just that republicans don't see that as a problem.

[lojasmo]

26. If you count civilians, we only have 1% N/T