Playing the Numbers

The Independent UK has a report on the failure to account for the deaths of civilian Iraqis in the war:

"The failure to keep account of civilian casualties is monstrous. It gives the impression that the lives of ordinary Iraqi citizens are worth less than those of soldiers."
Menzies Campbell, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats

The lack of accounting is seen by some as a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Of course, considering the number of violations, this one might have to "take a number" and wait until the public wakes up from its slumber (if the public EVER wakes from its slumber). There is one group looking into the civilian deaths: Iraq Body Count. To date, they calculate that between nine and eleven thousand Iraqi civilians have been killed, though this doesn't include Fallujah.

Those are Saddam-like numbers.