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…and, in fact, it isn’t.
A study conducted by Johns Hopkins Medical Bloomberg School of Public Health, and published in the UK medical journal The Lancet, is claiming that 655,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the US led invasion of Iraq.
So, all over the news today, the anchors have been urinating themselves over this study. The problem, none (except Miles O’Brien on CNN this morning, though even he was dismissive of the fact) are pointing up the fact that this study counted things such as heart attacks, deaths resulting from Cancer, and fatal automobile accidents (not the kind where a homicide bomber is involved).
655,000? Come on. I can’t believe it. Even Iraq Body Count puts the number at about 50,000.
All the bloggers smarter (and quicker)than me are all over this, so I will just point to them:
AP at Hot Air asks the pertinent question: Then, where are all the bodies?
Ace says the number is really closer to sixty-eight-bajillion.
Confederate Yankee has this:
It is quite simple: either all of the world’s media organizations are involved with a massive conspiracy with the U.S., British, and Iraqi governments for more than three years to cover up massive civilian losses roughly triple the number of those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
–OR–
This study, like the one issued before it, is another statistical lie.
I’ll have to think about it.
Tags: Iraq, Body Count, Civilian Casualties, Election