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Volume 71, Issue 121,
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Opinion
Letters to the Editor Media coverage of the war veils the good, not the bad To the editor: I respectfully disagree with Sousan Hammad's column "Media coverage veils the true atrocities of war" (Thursday, Opinion). The only thing that I hear from the media is how bad this war is going and that we have lost and we need to leave now. Contrary to many people's beliefs, there has been a lot of good news out of Iraq, but the media never tells about all the schools that are being built or that we have now trained 129 Iraqi battalions that are beginning secure hostile neighborhoods. Most people are not aware of how safe the northern region is, or how the southern region is making considerable progress. The other point I want to make is about the highly exaggerated figure of estimated Iraqi deaths. The reason why the British government did not report that 655,000 Iraqis have been killed was that it came from an unreliable source -- The Lancet, a far-left British journal that obviously has its own agenda. A more reliable source could be the United Nations, which has estimates of around 60,000, or even www.iraqbodycount.com, which has estimates as high as 70,000 (almost all of these were killed by terrorists and insurgents). All wars have atrocities and we must be told about them, but we must also be told about the successes that also occur. Brandon Smith
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