Kesher Talk

Bodycount. Current estimate of civilian deaths as a result of Iraq war: 6000-8000
(This is a high estimate by people who want the war to look as bad as possible. The numbers are probably much lower.)

French heat wave deaths: 15000.

More than twice as many innocent people died in France this past month of heat than died during the Iraq war which lasted about the same amount of time. The heat wave blasted most of Europe but no other country has suffered more than 50 deaths related to it. Most of these deaths were preventable (no other European country has the same attitude about air conditioning) as shown by lessons learned from the Chicago heatwave of 1995.

PS Previous snarky post about France.

posted by Judith @ 9/09/2003 07:37:16 PM