Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
This is clearly a case of logic and common sense being thrown out the window. According to this ridiculous survey an average of 16,500 “excess” deaths have occured in Iraq for 40 months. Let’s use a little common sense here. That is more casualities than the American civil war. This is double the deaths that occured in Somalia during the early 90′s. That caused a huge outrage and UN resolutions. If this is truly happening in Iraq, then why haven’t we heard any outrage from humanitarian groups. Even the best spin doctors from any administration couldn’t hide such a large number of deaths. It just doesn’t make sense. This number, 655,000, is just a number pulled out of thin air. It is as worthless as the paper it is written on and as ludicrous as the authors of the “survey”.
