Dumbass Tillman was murdered by his "fellow" US Rangers, not by afghan freedom fighters/terrorists as was claimed by the zionist army. Because he was such an asshole? Because the affirmative action US Ranger niggers can't distinguish a white Tillman from a taliban? The media won't tell us.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/12/05/tillman.friendly.fire.ap/index.html

Mary Tillman the dumb zionist-xtian told the Post that when she learned friendly fire had killed her son: "I was upset about it, but I thought, 'Well, accidents happen.'

Basically, it was a friendly fire screw-up, but the Army tried to take advantage of it by retelling the story in such a way as to make a great, inspiring hero out of Tillman. By doing so, they hoped to further inflame the jingoistic "war fever" of mindless flag-wavers and maybe even aid recruitment efforts. It's the same thing they tried to do with Jessica Lynch.

The moral: Never trust any official statement from the US government or military. Those people are utterly without honor; they haven't got a single honest bone in their bodies.

People make mistakes. That's why pencils have erasers.

In Iraq: 200,000 Iraqis and 20,000 (rounding up) of "us"

The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service

Civilian death toll in Iraq exceeds 100,000

Updated 13:05 29 October 04

NewScientist.com news service

The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by coalition forces has lead to the death of at least 100,000 civilians, reveals the first scientific study to examine the issue.

The majority of these deaths, which are in addition those normally expected from natural causes, illness and accidents, have been among women and children, finds the study, released early by The Lancet on Thursday.

The most common cause of death is as a direct result of violence, mostly caused by coalition air strikes, reveals the study of almost 1000 households scattered across Iraq. And the risk of violent death just after the invasion was 58 times greater than before the war. The overall risk of death was 1.5 times more after the invasion than before.

The figure of 100,000 – estimated by extrapolating the surveyed households’ death toll to the whole population - is based on "conservative assumptions", notes Les Roberts at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, US, who led the study.

That estimate excludes Falluja, a hotspot for violence. If the data from this town is included, the study points to about 200,000 excess deaths since the outbreak of war.