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DoYouEverWonder

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Tue Oct-21-03 12:43 PM
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10. Even worse, they stopped the Int'l Red Cross

From the start of major military operation, the ICRC was sending in staff to the hospitals in Iraq to count the injured and the dead. Up until March 23, 2003 the ICRC was posting this data on their website on a daily basis. After 03/23/03 they stopped posting any references to numbers of dead and injured. In other words, they stopped counting. I would assume that Bu$hCo pressured them to stop. So not only did the US refuse to count Iraqi casualties, they stopped the ICRC which was counting.

This is the link to the last time the ICRC reported dead and injured Iraqi civilians:

http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList4/1186B6BB149D698EC1256CF200540828

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