Reply #12: That would be my take on it too [View All]

But common sense says that the vast majority of innocent bystanders killed in "military operations" as defined above would have been killed by the U.S. military, simply by virtue of the great advantage in firepower that they possess.

One could make the same claim of the "terrorist" caused deaths - it is a commonplace that many of the deaths attributed to car bombs by occupation forces have been attributed to U.S. missiles by opponents of the occupation.

Naturally, without the all seeing eye of God nobody can be sure of the source of every bullet or piece of shrapnel. The best one can do is apply some common sense filters to the claims, I suppose.

I don't think this means the BBC has apologized, it has just given the Iraqi puppet government a chance to "explain their numbers".

On edit - They use the phrase "regrets mistakes", so I suppose that constitutes an apology in most people's books. I don't see what they did wrong - the occupation authority is just splitting hairs.