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More evidence that Sunsara Taylor
is right, Bill O'Reilly is wrong
Newshounds
Saturday April 7, 2007
On March 20th Sunsara Taylor (worldcantwait.org) appeared on The
O'Reilly Factor and passionately pounded him with facts about the
Bush administration policies, practices, and the consequences of
same.
From my previous post:
"She and O'Reilly argued the number of Iraqis dead, he citing
the UN figure of 59,000 and she using the 600,000 figure from The
Lancet ("considered to be one of the 'core' general medical
journals, the others being the New England Journal of Medicine,
the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the British
Medical Journal. The Lancet's impact factor is currently ranked
#3 among general medical journals." from Wikipedia.) O'Reilly
scoffed and dismissed it as "far left," his answer to
anything that proves him wrong. Taylor could have backed up her
figure with the October 2006 confirmation from the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, which says
Updated Iraq Survey Affirms Earlier Mortality Estimates
Mortality Trends Comparable to Estimates by Those Using Other Counting
Methods
As many as 654,965 more Iraqis may have died since hostilities
began in Iraq in March 2003 than would have been expected under
pre-war conditions, according to a survey conducted by researchers
at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya
University in Baghdad. The deaths from all causes—violent
and non-violent—are over and above the estimated 143,000 deaths
per year that occurred from all causes prior to the March 2003 invasion."
Recently, the Independent reported that documents released as a
result of a FOI request show that Britain's Ministry of Defence's
chief scientific adviser said the survey's methods were "close
to best practice" and the study design was "robust".
British government officials have backed the methods used by scientists
who concluded that more than 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since
the invasion, the BBC reported yesterday.
The study, conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore and the Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, estimated
that 655,000 more Iraqis had died since March 2003 than one would
expect without the war. The study estimated that 601,027 of those
deaths were from violence.
The researchers, reflecting the inherent uncertainties in such
extrapolations, said they were 95 per cent certain that the real
number of deaths lay somewhere between 392,979 and 942,636.
The conclusion, based on interviews and not a body count, was disputed
by some experts, and rejected by the US and British governments.
But the chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence, Roy
Anderson, described the methods used in the study as "robust"
and "close to best practice". Another official said it
was "a tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict
zones".
These numbers are being buried by the mainstream media in both the
US and Great Britain. Administration lackeys like Bill O'Reilly
dutifully repeat the lower UN figures and haughtily wave away these
even more devastating numbers. His angry dismissal of Taylor and
his subsequent dishonest attacks on her show the great lengths he
will go to to support this administration and this war.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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