Shocking Tally of Iraq Civilian Causalities

[Occhidiangela]

Very good rebuttle.  I agree 100%

Many of the claims made were on enourmous leaps of faith.

And Air strikes are VERY far and few between since my deployment.  (We had 1 500 pound bomb the entire deployment for my entire brigade sector.  And hellfire missles from apache gunships and kiowa's was extremely limited.  With only a handful of the strikes for the year.  All in eastern baghdad btw.)

On the other hand, IED's, VBIED's (Car bombs), and other insurgent activity was constant, and while much of it was directed at American forces (ie. ME!), They missed their targets more often than hit it.  Or specifically targeted soft Shia targets. 

Huge holes in this report if you ask me.
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The sampling method can skew results if most of your sampling areas are high action areas like . . . Fallujah . . . and one then extrapolates from there. :P I hope they took that into account.

I'd like to see the original research and better understand his methodology.

Occhi