Monday, November 01, 2004
Report: 100,000 Iraq civilians killed in war
Another headline from Stars & Stripes – only this one isn’t true. This study, published in the Lancet, was rigged big time: “However, more than a third of the post-invasion deaths were reported in one cluster of households in the city Fallujah, where fighting has been so intense recently. Because the fighting was so severe there, the numbers from that location may have exaggerated the overall picture.” Gosh, do you think so?
Oh, is there an election on Tuesday? Well, Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins U states, “My motive [in releasing the study] was that if it came out during the campaign, both candidates would be forced to pledge to protect civilian lives in Iraq.”
Another headline from Stars & Stripes – only this one isn’t true. This study, published in the Lancet, was rigged big time: “However, more than a third of the post-invasion deaths were reported in one cluster of households in the city Fallujah, where fighting has been so intense recently. Because the fighting was so severe there, the numbers from that location may have exaggerated the overall picture.” Gosh, do you think so?
Oh, is there an election on Tuesday? Well, Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins U states, “My motive [in releasing the study] was that if it came out during the campaign, both candidates would be forced to pledge to protect civilian lives in Iraq.”
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