I am watching Condi Rice on Meet the Press as I write this and wishing that Tim was still running the show. The new guy is just soft-balling questions at her and not busting her on simple out-and-out lies.
I was thinking about the Lancet article on civilian deaths in Iraq which set the figure at around 600,000 dead. A recent New England Journal of Medicine article put it at 156,000 dead.
Contrast that to Sadaam's death toll (since 1968) of between 150 and 200k deaths.
How has the war bettered the lives of Iraqis? Yes, we removed a nasty dictator (put into power by us) but we've killed as many Iraqis in five years as he did in thirty-plus years.
Shocking.
(also found a figure suggesting that we have better than 100k American wounded. Why is this not a major press story??)
Posted by artandscience at December 21, 2008 07:24 AM