What I find remarkable is that the government can refuse to give any information about the civilian casulaties. The US based press has not done the investigation to find out. So the only people who have number are people who seem to care about how many innocent people have been killed, which are anti-war organizations or aribic news sources.

I personally think it says something that the government will not list any estimate for iraqi military or civilian casualties. I think it says something that they will not say how many were killed in fallujah.

It is the same reason they will not let any pictures of caskets be shown. Out of site, out of mind. They want people to just forget about all those killed. They seem to even want people to forget about the sacrifices of our own soldiers killed, since there seems to be little or no formal rememberences or ceramonies and few references to them other than Dick Cheney calling them "costs"