Reply #43: Iraqi hospitals have difficulty getting supplies to keep the floors clean [View All]

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and the antibiotics stocked, let alone keeping records maintained. When we leveled Fallujah, where so many Iraqis died, the hospital had to be vacated because the US overran it, looking for weapons. When reporters try to get an Iraqi body count, they tend to be shot at/killed by the US military.

Note Tommy Franks' comment at the top of this webpage:

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

"We don't do body counts," meaning, parenthetically, neither should anyone else, if they value their life.

So, we must rely on published reports. Obviously, the death toll is grossly undercounted, but for the sake of accuracy, newspaper articles are what the Iraqi death count is based up.