Comments on: thousands dead, nothing said http://www.runoverbythetruth.com/2009/04/30/3854-dead-nothing-said/ Sun, 09 May 2010 10:13:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: red http://www.runoverbythetruth.com/2009/04/30/3854-dead-nothing-said/comment-page-1/#comment-60 red Fri, 01 May 2009 12:49:26 +0000 http://www.runoverbythetruth.com/?p=424#comment-60 Yes you are right. On previous posts elsewhere, I have used <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/11/iraq.iraq" rel="nofollow">the Lancet's figures</a>, which put the 2006 figure at 655,000 Iraqi deaths. That is estimated to be <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/counterexplanation.html" rel="nofollow">more than a million</a> if the numbers are extrapolated to today. That is a very good critique from Media Lens of the problems with the IBC figures, which I had pulled up on a search for Basra. Obviously I don't want to minimise the Iraqi casualties. I am going to edit the post now, to highlight the Lancet figures, which I referred to but didn't quote or link. *switches critical faculties back on* Lots of thanks Queenie. UPDATE: edit done. Yes you are right. On previous posts elsewhere, I have used the Lancet’s figures, which put the 2006 figure at 655,000 Iraqi deaths. That is estimated to be more than a million if the numbers are extrapolated to today.

That is a very good critique from Media Lens of the problems with the IBC figures, which I had pulled up on a search for Basra.

Obviously I don’t want to minimise the Iraqi casualties. I am going to edit the post now, to highlight the Lancet figures, which I referred to but didn’t quote or link.

*switches critical faculties back on*

Lots of thanks Queenie.

UPDATE: edit done.

]]> By: Queenie http://www.runoverbythetruth.com/2009/04/30/3854-dead-nothing-said/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Queenie Fri, 01 May 2009 12:32:18 +0000 http://www.runoverbythetruth.com/?p=424#comment-58 My understanding of Iraq Body Count is that it seems to exist solely to minimise the death stats. Whether useful idiots or deliberately coopted, I'm not sure. Every other estimate has been closer to a million. Sadly I have no links to back this up right now and am therefore just spouting hot air, so feel free to disregard everything I say. Oh no, hang on, there's <a href="http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060314_iraq_body_count.php" rel="nofollow">this</a> Make of it what you will. Back to your point though: yes, it's been a lovely war for business. Not so much for the collateral damage. I can't believe the words "open for business" were actually used in the statement. Good heavens. My understanding of Iraq Body Count is that it seems to exist solely to minimise the death stats. Whether useful idiots or deliberately coopted, I’m not sure. Every other estimate has been closer to a million.

Sadly I have no links to back this up right now and am therefore just spouting hot air, so feel free to disregard everything I say.

Oh no, hang on, there’s this

Make of it what you will.

Back to your point though: yes, it’s been a lovely war for business. Not so much for the collateral damage. I can’t believe the words “open for business” were actually used in the statement. Good heavens.

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