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Thread #104818 Message #2162172
Posted By: pdq
02-Oct-07 - 02:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: It's official...... it was about oil
Subject: RE: BS: It's official...... it was about oil
The huge (and phony) death count in Iraq was fabricated by two Johns Hopkins teachers who were connected to a school of international politics, not medicine. That figure was placed before the public by the publisher of Lancet for political reasons (a few weeks before the US elections). He has stated that himself.
The actual number should be about 38,000.
Had Saddam been left in power, at the rate of 159 dead per day (see Amnesty International) there would have been 250,000 dead since the beginning of the MAR 2003 military action. We have prevented about 200,000 deaths and may be able to establish a stable democracy which will be an asset to the world community. It was once the biggest threat extant.