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Just Election year Politics

October 11, 2006

655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.  This according Burnham, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and others is to be published Thursday on the Web site of The Lancet, a medical journal.

Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003,” Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author of the study, said in a statement.

The problem with te study is the researchers who have created similar studies just before previous elections have admitted their intentions.At the time, the lead researcher, Les Roberts of Hopkins, said the timing was deliberate. Many of the same researchers were involved in the latest estimate.

 One respected group says truthfully the rough estimate at closer to 50,000.

“They’re almost certainly way too high….This is not analysis, this is politics,” said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington. He criticized the way the estimate was derived and noted the bias right before an election.

Written by untiled · Filed Under Conservative Liberal Moral Politics 

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