"Which Lancet article?"
Oct. 12th, 2006 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnpalmerJust in case people don't know.
650,000 Iragis have died *over and above* the number we'd expect to see die, over the 40 months from the invasion until the end of July of this year.
Over half a million.
200+ 9/11 attacks.
Of course, it's unbelievable. Impossible. It's total bull crap because, hey, there's a time period where it might have been *700* a day, and that's unthinkable, because, you know, it's *LESS THAN ONE THIRTY-THOUSANDTH OF THE FUCKING POPULATION*.
And with 30,000 people per dead body per day, they'd practically be *tripping* over them.
Sorry. I'm ranting, because there was a bozo who pretended he could work with numbers making claims like this. Many Muslims put the dead body in a plain wooden box and bury it before sundown. No muss, no fuss, just a few hours work, and then you get to hope that someone else gets stuck with body duty next time.
It's solid. And the 2004 report, of 100,000 deaths? It's been replicated, only with better data and a larger sample size, giving a tighter boundary, something like 66-160k, centering on 112k. No matter how you slice it, it's virtually certain that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead because of this war.
And, hello, does anyone flipping well *care*?
650,000 Iragis have died *over and above* the number we'd expect to see die, over the 40 months from the invasion until the end of July of this year.
Over half a million.
200+ 9/11 attacks.
Of course, it's unbelievable. Impossible. It's total bull crap because, hey, there's a time period where it might have been *700* a day, and that's unthinkable, because, you know, it's *LESS THAN ONE THIRTY-THOUSANDTH OF THE FUCKING POPULATION*.
And with 30,000 people per dead body per day, they'd practically be *tripping* over them.
Sorry. I'm ranting, because there was a bozo who pretended he could work with numbers making claims like this. Many Muslims put the dead body in a plain wooden box and bury it before sundown. No muss, no fuss, just a few hours work, and then you get to hope that someone else gets stuck with body duty next time.
It's solid. And the 2004 report, of 100,000 deaths? It's been replicated, only with better data and a larger sample size, giving a tighter boundary, something like 66-160k, centering on 112k. No matter how you slice it, it's virtually certain that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead because of this war.
And, hello, does anyone flipping well *care*?
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Date: 2006-10-12 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-12 03:29 pm (UTC)Sorry if the sarcasm was overdone. The war in Iraq is disgusting and disgraceful, and just the latest in a long, sad list of unnecessary wars our government has dragged us into (1861, 1898, 1917, 1941, 1950, etc.). Yes, some people do care, but not nearly enough, and seldom consistently. After all, most people believe that the wars occurring in the dates I listed were justified.
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Date: 2006-10-12 10:53 pm (UTC)But - even without reading a daily newspaper or watching cable news - it's appalling and shameful that I had to learn about this report on LiveJournal.