President Bush states IRAQ study not credible...?

Question

Or it it the study finds President Bush is not a credible President?

Ah, a few hundred thousand people...who's counting when you don't have to send anyone from your OWN family to get there hea blown off in the name of Freedom...in the name of God...in the name of Allah...


...or is it in the name of Exxon-Mobil?

Answer 1

And how can interviews with a couple thousand Iraqis be credible? That adds up to 30,000 deaths per person interviewed! Iraqi oil is not owned by Exxon, it's owned by Iraq, idiot.

Answer 2

Whether or not Bush is right or not, I can't say, but there is reason to doubt the 650,000 death toll figure, albeit Johns Hopkins University is connected with both studies, so you could equally ask what reason there is to doubt either study.

I've not seen the new study in depth, but the other study published in The Lancet medical journal in October of 2004 did a comparitive analysis between the first 14.6 months before and the 17.8 months after the war in Iraq began. The high end estimation was 100,000 + post war. If you approximate the average death rate to be 182 (est) per day, at about 550 (rounded well up) days after the start of the war, with a 100,000 deaths estimation after the start of the war, that's a per day rate 2.68 (give or take a bit) times lower than the 650,000 death rate, assuming it covers the full time of the war to October of this year, though presumably the survery it comes from ended well before October.

I think the first study ended in August or September of 2004, so that would make, though this rate may have increased markedly since then, the extrapolated total deaths since then, at the 182 per day death rate, beginning with August of 2004, 242,000, counting the 100,000 estimated in the study's time period.

The disparity should call the new study into question, the olde one was itself questioned.

Answer 3

Bush stated on Wednesday that "many innocent people have lost their lives in this conflict." He said he did not know the exact number but that 650,000 was not credible, he said the methodology was wrong. He said he didn't know the exact number but countless people have died. He believes defeating the terrorists in Iraq will keep Americans at home is the US safer from terrorists. They are dying over there to keep America safe.

Answer 4

The thing is a few months ago the White House was agreeing with the UN survey of 130 thousand, now they say its somewhere around 50 thousand, what gives?

Answer 5

It sickens me. 650,000 dead Iraqis, and they (both Bush and Rumsfeld, yesterday) can only say that the numbers must not be credible? It was all I could do to not puke all over myself.

Why is this happening? How can this be? God help us all.

Answer 6

How incredibly lucky for him that President Bush is so brain dead that he lacks the imagination and conscience to take inventory of his actions.

Answer 7

Clearly, everything "Honorable Mr. President" does is in the name of oil, of his own wealth. Iraq and Afghanistan have been lies, but no one stands up to stop him. It is really sad.

Answer 8

is he drunk again