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1 posted on 10/12/2006 3:44:45 PM PDT by jmc1969

Those two brothers are gold.

2 posted on 10/12/2006 3:49:11 PM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)

3 posted on 10/12/2006 3:52:35 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))

This isn't a very strong rebuttal, unfortunately.

The polling and "extrapolation" techniques used by the Lancet authors need a close look. For example, did the poll ask households if a "family member" had been killed? If so, then that's a built-in guarantee of overcounting, as in Iraq there will be a dozen households that will say yes to that while referring to the same victim. And that's even without the usual al taqqiyah Islamic lying.

4 posted on 10/12/2006 4:12:49 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast

When I read the report I can only feel apathy and inhumanity from those who did the count towards the victims and towards our suffering as a whole. I can tell they were so pleased when the equations their twisted minds designed led to those numbers and nothing can convince me that they did their so called research out of compassion or care.

From the beginning, the world's journalists were in Iraq lusting after dead and wounded Iraqi civilians to blame on President Bush and on those who serve in the U.S. military. Since we know they were there, and what they were after, we recognize that "the equations their twisted minds designed" do not represent identifiable bodies of actual people.
The "victims" of whom they boast are virtual - the reason they do not produce the bodies is that no real bodies are represented by their numbers.

6 posted on 10/12/2006 4:23:23 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)

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