Doesn't keep count of cannon fodder
"It's approximately 500, of which — I can get the exact numbers — approximately 350 are combat deaths." — US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz, April 29, responded at a US House of Representatives subcommittee hearing to a question as to the number of US troops killed in Iraq. Reporting Wolfowitz's answer, Associated Press noted that US troop deaths as of April 29 were "722 — 521 of them from combat — since the start of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense".
Land of the free
"A study mapping the prisons built in the boom of the last two decades has found that some counties in the United States now have more than 30 percent of their residents behind bars." — New York Times, April 30.
On Bushworld
"A year ago, I did give the speech from the carrier, saying that we had achieved an important objective, that we'd accomplished a mission, which was the removal of Saddam Hussein. And as a result, there are no longer torture chambers or rape rooms or mass graves in Iraq." — Emperor George Bush II, April 30.
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth
"Iraqi prisoners have faced numerous 'sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses' by US soldiers, including sodomy and beatings, according to a US Army report quoted by the New Yorker magazine... In an article posted on its web site on Saturday, the magazine said the report had been authorised by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top US officer in Iraq, and was completed in February." — Reuters news agency, May 1.
Someone forgot to change his script
"Because we acted, torture rooms are closed, rape rooms no longer exist, mass graves are no longer a possibility in Iraq." — Emperor Bush, May 3.
From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, May 19, 2004.
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