I wonder from which textbooks you get your "facts"? >> casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the 7 figures) I assume that is from the Lancet reports? Hi

I wonder from which textbooks you get your "facts"? >> casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the 7 figures) I assume that is from the Lancet reports? Highly doubtful, see the reality check from the Iraq Body count [1] (never answered by the Lancet authors afaik). At a minimum, it would require a big conspiracy still controlling information from morgues in the larger hospitals -- since any large hospital would see a significant fraction of the official deaths for the whole Iraq, if the Lancet papers are correct! And a conspiracy to (continue to) hide the makers of prostheses for all the hidden maimed. And so on. Now we can say, because of the later leaks of internal US military documents, that if there were large conspiracies like these to do the needed coverups, it would be known. [2] is quite fun, btw. Etc, etc. (And don't even start explaining the logic of blaming a country U for what people did to civilians, while also trying to kill soldiers from U... But sure, I can agree that the Bush administration was criminally incompetent.) [1] http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/beyond/reality-checks/ http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/beyond/reality-checks/ [2] http://lancetiraq.blogspot.ro/2010/03/dubious-polling.html http://lancetiraq.blogspot.ro/2010/03/dubious-polling.html Edit: I answered a Karma 77 account, sigh. I need to stay out of the religious hate wars people use these accounts for. [It was upvoted later, by himself? :-) ] Edit 2: But to support your point re Japan, US sources doesn't seem to mention much that in Nagasaki they nuked the biggest church in Asia? (The remains of the church is moved closer to the point below where the bomb exploded.)