Questions cross the Atlantic

[bdude]

Italian Faces Pre-War Intelligence Probe

Tuesday October 25, 2005 9:46 PM

AP Photo MIL110

By ARIEL DAVID

Associated Press Writer

ROME (AP) - The head of Italy's military secret services will be questioned by a parliamentary commission next week over allegations that his organization gave the United States and Britain disputed documents suggesting that Saddam Hussein had been seeking uranium in Africa, officials said Tuesday.

Rest of the article here.

Intriguing build-up to possibly the story of the year. I have a feeling when all is said and done, heads will role in multiple countries.

 

[dahunan]

Nothing will ever bring back the lives of the 2000+ dead American Soldiers
Nothing will ever give back the arms, eyes, ears, sight etc to the 15,000 handicapped US veterans of this war
Nothing will ever bring back the lives of the possibly 100,000 Iraqi Citizens we killed

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: dahunan
Nothing will ever bring back the lives of the 2000+ dead American Soldiers
Nothing will ever give back the arms, eyes, ears, sight etc to the 15,000 handicapped US veterans of this war
Nothing will ever bring back the lives of the possibly 100,000 Iraqi Citizens we killed

yeah its sad isnt it. 'they' killed 4500 of our people and 'we' kill 100,000 of theirs.

 

[wkinney]

where are you getting this 100,000 number from?

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: wkinney
where are you getting this 100,000 number from?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties.htm

and from here

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=52&threadid=1721350&enterthread=y
http://www.mclaughlin.com/library/transcript.asp?id=489

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: He let him get away without even mentioning his name.

Okay, the human toll: U.S. military dead in Iraq, including suicides, 1,983; U.S. military amputeed, wounded, injured, mentally ill, all now out of Iraq, 47,400; Iraqi civilian dead, 117,100.

Exit question: If Saddam was still in power, would there be 30,000 insurgents in Iraq today and al Qaeda in Iraq today? Pat Buchanan.

MR. BUCHANAN: No way.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: No way. Eleanor.

 

[wkinney]

Where did he pull that number from?
Is there any other source that cofirms that number?

Just seems rash to accept it as true when there are others that say much lower (seemingly liberal sources)

 

[fornax]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
yeah its sad isnt it. 'they' killed 4500 of our people and 'we' kill 100,000 of theirs.

Who are the 4500 "our" people that the Iraqis killed?