IraqiBodyCount.propaganda?

When I first saw this site, I thought that it was going to be a fairly stand up, honest, and generally unbiased approach towards detailing exactly how many civilians were killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Unfortunately, the website’s administrators have been content to include such dubious claims as the Syrian bus bombing and the marketplace incident which is now reasonably understood as a misfired Iraqi SAM. Incidents such as these are categorized as Coalition failures in their mandate to minimize civilian casualties, and therefore get added to the list.

As it stands today, there are anywhere from 544 to 733 deaths attributed to the war. Far less than what Saddam Hussein has inflicted upon his own people through sanctions. But if the operators of IraqBodyCount.org intend to keep their website reputable, I would like to think that they would put a different emphasis. Sure one could say that all deaths attributed to the war should be in the count, but to put a spin on it that suggests that the deaths of innocents is solely the fault of Coalition forces is misleading and does a great injustice to those currently suffering at Ba’athist gunpoint within Iraq. Certainly the organizers of IraqBodyCount have not included those Iraqi civilians fired upon by Ba’athist guerillas in Basrah. Why include other questionable incidents, if not for some type of ideological gain?