Remember the bogus Lancet study put out a week before the
election las year? They falsely claimed that our military was
mostly responsible for the slaughter of 100,000 innocent
Iraqis, mostly women & children. Even though this study was
quickly & thoroughly debunked by experts, the MSM made this
bogus study front page news & asserted it as fact.
Many libs still cite this discredited study as their holy
grail that proves Bush is worse than Saddam.
Well, the UN (no friend of the US) has done a more thorough
study. It has not been vetted yet. The numbers, which include
at least another 6 months since Saddam was deposed, shows the
Lancet study was complete crap.
The UN's numbers cite that all deaths from the invasion & its
aftermath are around 24,000. And that includes those killed
by Iraqi forces, terrorists & Saddam's dead enders. The
Lancet study laid most of the deaths on our military.
Will the MSM prominently make corrections to their previously
false & misleading assertions? Will lib's still cite the
Lancet study & ignore the UN study? Wanna bet lib's claim the
UN study is flawed?
TWT
IRAQ'S DEAD COUNTED
Tim Blair
Researchers surveyed 808 households for a study published last year by The Lancet which concluded that as many as 100,000 “excess deaths” had occurred in Iraq since liberation.
The UN has now released a survey of more than 21,600 households:
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The invasion of Iraq and its aftermath caused the deaths of 24,000 Iraqis, including many children, according to the most detailed survey yet of postwar life in the country.
The UN report paints a picture of modern Iraq brought close to collapse despite its oil wealth. Successive wars, a decade of sanctions and the current violence have destroyed services, undermined health and education and made the lives of ordinary Iraqis dangerous and miserable.
The survey for the UN Development Programme, entitled Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004, questioned more than 21,600 households this time last year. Its findings, released by the Ministry of Planning yesterday, could finally resolve the debate over how many Iraqis were killed in the war that overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein in April 2003.
The 370-page report said that it was 95 per cent confident that the toll during the war and the first year of occupation was 24,000, but could have been between 18,000 and 29,000.
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According to CNN, the UN survey was conducted throughout all of Iraq’s 18 provinces (the Lancet study examined 11). Also from CNN:
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Iraq’s unemployment rate was 10.5 percent of a population of 27 million people, the report found.
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That figure blows out to 18.4 percent when workers not looking for a job are included; the number of unemployed seeking work, however, compares reasonably well with data from France (unemployment: 9.4 percent).
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While there has been progress since Saddam Hussein’s fall, “these data depict a very tragic picture of the quality of life,” Iraqi transitional Planning Minister Barham Salih said.
Salih said the mismanagement of Saddam’s government and his regime’s internal conflicts and those with its neighbors took a toll that spared no sector of the country’s infrastructure.
"Saddam Hussein has left us a wasteland,” Salih said. “This country could have been the economic powerhouse of the Middle East."
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And might well become so, in time, now that Saddam is gone and his sons are dead.
(Via Scott Campbell and Alan R.M. Jones)
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