But most of the evidence of civilian casualties is anecdotal — although no less powerful.

So we can all let emotion get in the way of facts because it is much more "powerful."

Is it at all surprising that the IBC Project Consultant is non other than Marc Herold, who fantastically overcounted civilian casualties in Afghanistan? Max Power reports that the IBC website was counting casualties before the war even started. Not a bad idea, they could have started with the hundreds of thousands that came at the hands of Saddam Hussein