Halloween = All Hallows' Eve - Dead Folks' Time
Well it is appropriate to choose the coming Day of the Dead on Nov. 1 to come out with realistic figures for deaths in Iraq. I am looking at the editorial Eugene Robinson published today in WaPo, and while it doesn't try to judge the WH cabal on its indifference to deaths, it does try to point out why the figure of 650,000 is credible. Of course, the cretin in chief brushed it off. Naturally. That science stuff doesn't help him any politically.
from Robinson; 'We now have reputable evidence -- not proof, I'll allow, but science-based evidence from respected scholars, published in one of the world's most prestigious medical journals -- that the humanitarian tragedy in Iraq is much, much worse than anyone had suspected.
If the study's findings are flawed, then its critics should demonstrate how and why. But no one should dismiss these shocking numbers without fully examining them. No one should want to.'
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201670.html]
What hRobinson also mentions is that the method the researchers used was much like that used by political polls, that deduces larger trends by inspecting a microcosm of actual households interviewed.
While I fear that not enuff people in this country will take more than passing interest in the number killed in Iraqi households, it is a horrible figure. It is all the more ominous, in that each death leaves many others with lingering resentment of the U.S. presence there, and a burgeoning resistance to this callous disregard for their country and countrymen.
'Stay the course' is a death knell to rational, sound judgment. We need to leave the Iraqis to mourn their dead and to heal.
from Robinson; 'We now have reputable evidence -- not proof, I'll allow, but science-based evidence from respected scholars, published in one of the world's most prestigious medical journals -- that the humanitarian tragedy in Iraq is much, much worse than anyone had suspected.
If the study's findings are flawed, then its critics should demonstrate how and why. But no one should dismiss these shocking numbers without fully examining them. No one should want to.'
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201670.html]
What hRobinson also mentions is that the method the researchers used was much like that used by political polls, that deduces larger trends by inspecting a microcosm of actual households interviewed.
While I fear that not enuff people in this country will take more than passing interest in the number killed in Iraqi households, it is a horrible figure. It is all the more ominous, in that each death leaves many others with lingering resentment of the U.S. presence there, and a burgeoning resistance to this callous disregard for their country and countrymen.
'Stay the course' is a death knell to rational, sound judgment. We need to leave the Iraqis to mourn their dead and to heal.
posted by Diane at 7:30 AM
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And that's before the morbididty from the DU kicks in.
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