Daily Kos :: U.S, Killing More Civilians Than Insurgents Are

From Daily Kos

Coalition fatalities in Iraq: 1183

U.S. military fatalities in Iraq: 1048

Iraqi military fatalities: Several thousand

Iraqi civilian fatalities: At least 12,927

Number of Weapons of Mass Destruction discovered: Zero

Iyad Allawi, the Bush Administration’s dancing bear, scarcely strained on his leash during his visit to America to shore up support for the war that Dubyanocchio told us was all but over when he did his own little dance on the USS Abraham Lincoln nearly 17 months ago. While Allawi had harsh words for the insurgents and the thugs who kidnap and behead foreigners in Iraq, not a word was spoken about this:

Iraqi civilian casualties mounting

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Operations by U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing twice as many Iraqis - most of them civilians - as attacks by insurgents, according to statistics compiled by the Iraqi Health Ministry and obtained exclusively by Knight Ridder.

According to the ministry, the interim Iraqi government recorded 3,487 Iraqi deaths in 15 of the country's 18 provinces from April 5 - when the ministry began compiling the data - until Sept. 19. Of those, 328 were women and children. Another 13,720 Iraqis were injured, the ministry said.

While most of the dead are believed to be civilians, the data include an unknown number of police and Iraqi national guardsmen. Many Iraqi deaths, especially of insurgents, are never reported, so the actual number of Iraqis killed in fighting could be significantly higher.