{"id":2916,"date":"2006-06-06T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2006-06-11T13:21:49","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T20:21:49","slug":"video-iraq-logs-record-civilian-killings-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Iraq Logs Record Civilian Killings in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <b><a href=\"mailto:david@edwardsdavid.com\" target=\"_blank\">David Edwards<\/a><\/b> of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/veredictum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veredictum.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwardsdavid.com\/media\/cnn\/images\/cnn_ywt_iraq_violence_increase_060606a1.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/cnn\/cnn_ywt_iraq_violence_increase_060606a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/bb_play_video-a.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/cnn\/cnn_ywt_iraq_violence_increase_060606a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\">Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/cnn\/cnn_ywt_iraq_violence_increase_060606a_320x240.wmv\">Video in Windows Media format&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Iraq, the month of May saw the largest number of Iraqi civilian deaths since the war began 3 years ago. The Baghdad morgue reported over 1400 dead in May. Over 400 of the dead Iraqis could not be identified. Some journalists, like veteran reporter Robert Fisk, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002160.htm\">claim<\/a> that the officials are under-reporting the actual number of deaths. In addition, many more bodies can never be counted because explosions and road side bombs often leave little evidence of human remains.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s clear is that the violence in Iraq is increasing at a pivotal time for the fledgling Iraqi government. Even the shell-shocked Iraqis are stunned by the new level of violence. For example, over a two day period, 18 severed heads wrapped in plastic have been discovered. The likely cause are the escalating sectarian revenge killings. <\/p>\n<p>In this video, an Iraqi woman cries,<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Where is the government?<\/p>\n<p>Where is Bush who occupied our country?<\/p>\n<p>Why did they kill us?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>ADDENDUM FROM BRAD<\/b>: Good timing for David Edward&#8217;s post here. I was about to do one of my own, pointing out <a href=\"http:\/\/news.monstersandcritics.com\/middleeast\/printer_1169847.php\">this report<\/a> that 6,000 Iraqi corpses have been discovered in the last 5 months. Given Iraq&#8217;s population of appx. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/iz.html\">25 million<\/a>, compared with the US&#8217;s population of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/us.html\">300 million<\/a>. The equivalent of 6000 deaths in Iraq over the past five months would be some 72,000 in America. If we had 72,000 murders via &#8220;sectarian violence&#8221; in America in just five months, would <i>that<\/i> be considered a civil war? Or would we criticize the media for not reporting all the &#8220;good news&#8221; in our country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards of Veredictum.com Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230; Video in Windows Media format&#8230; In Iraq, the month of May saw the largest number of Iraqi civilian deaths since the war began 3 years ago. The Baghdad morgue reported over 1400 dead in May. Over 400 of the dead Iraqis could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}