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Thread #117126   Message #2557439
Posted By: Teribus
04-Feb-09 - 07:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why Iraq Was a Mistake, Teribus...
Subject: RE: BS: Why Iraq Was a Mistake, Teribus...
Now we got this from Bobert:

"No, T, that is not my source... My source is

http;//www.justforiegnpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

...which has the death count at well over a million now..."

Now the source that was mentioned in the link that I provided contained the following - "the Lancet medical journal in 2006 that 650,000 civilians had died since 2003."

This is what Bobert's source says in its opening lines:

"The number is shocking and sobering.

It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.

That study, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006."

Yet Bobert states that the figures given in the Lancet article, figures that were taken from the John Hopkins Study are not his source. While Bobert's source clearly states that their figures are based on the same incorrect and incomplete study that lacks all credibility that John Hopkins had published in the Lancet.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Same study Bobert, ONE MILLION IRAQIS HAVE NOT BEEN KILLED.