BBC apologizes for anti-American misrepresentation of deaths in Iraq

Well, that's good of them

Excerpt:

The figures said that 3,274 civilians had died in that period, 2,041 of them as the result of "military operations".

The rest were attributed to "terrorist operations".

The BBC reported the figures as suggesting that coalition and Iraqi forces could be responsible for up to 60% of conflict-related civilian deaths in Iraq.

However, the Iraqi Ministry of Health then clarified that the figures included not just civilians, but also insurgents and Iraqi security forces. And it said that the phrase "military operations" referred to Iraqis killed by insurgents as well as coalition or Iraqi forces.

I say:

Isn't it awful how the nasty American soldiers are killing all those nice Iraqi insurgents who are just trying to protect their country... oh, wait a minute. Those insurgents are *killing* Iraqis, for the crime of wanting to run the country themselves.

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