After reporting all the good news surrounding the historic Iraqi elections, the AFP repeat this lie:
The costly 2003 invasion and its aftermath has killed around 2,155 US soldiers. Bush admitted Wednesday that the war had been based on faulty intelligence after estimating that 30,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed.
The truth is, Bush never said any such thing.
Q Since the inception of the Iraqi war, I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators.
THE PRESIDENT: How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war? I would say 30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis. We've lost about 2,140 of our own troops in Iraq.
The figure quoted includes military, police and insurgents.
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