…In reality, though, only a fool would attach much credibility to any definite statistic. Iraq is currently the most lawless place on earth. There are so many dead people blown up by car bombs, killed in sectarian feuds, or shot by the coalition that any daily figure is categorically unknowable.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb In September last year, I arrived at Baghdad’s Al-Karkh police station, soon after a car bomb had gone off. It had exploded next to a queue of police recruits. There was a large hole in the road. I asked Allah Hamas, a falafel-stall owner who survived, how many people were dead. I saw 30 bodies, he said. This was, we agreed, a bit of a guess. Flesh hung from the trees; on the roof of an adjacent shopping arcade an Iraqi policeman noticed the top of someone’s head. He lowered it gingerly with a stick. Under these circumstances, the methodology of conventional death no longer applies.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Even Baghdad’s morgue provides few clues. Every few minutes a police pick-up truck rolls up with the latest bloodied victim; not all of the dead, though, make it this far. Perhaps Bush would do better simply to admit that many many thousands have been killed, and leave it at that.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 14 d\u00e9cembre 2005 \u00e0 14H13<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lundi dernier, dans un discours \u00e0 Philadelphie, Bush a parl\u00e9 des pertes en Irak : \u00ab 30,000 have died, more or less \u00bb. C’est la premi\u00e8re fois qu’un chiffre est avanc\u00e9 officiellement \u00e0 Washington. Jusqu’ici, la consigne renvoyait \u00e0 la phrase c\u00e9l\u00e8bre du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Tommy Franks : \u00ab We don’t do body counting. \u00bb Le… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[857,4394],"class_list":["post-67101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-irak","tag-pertes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}