Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
Jim’s numbers in his above comments are off. Sorry Jim.
In the above article the number of death’s since Sept. 2004 is 550,000.
Over a two year period it would come to about 277,500 excessive deaths per year, or 23,125 excessive deaths per month or 771 excessive deaths per day.
And nobody notice this until these guys did a survey? Yea…Sure… that’s the ticket!
In my local, morning news cast there is always a segment on how many reportedly died in Iraq the previous day due to conflict with the miitary, IDE’s or small arms fire and the like. The number is always something like 5 or 10, and on a really bad day it gets up to 25.
A simple comparison to WWII will show the nonsense of this report. In the four years of violent, full-on war with our enemy forces in WWII, the USA lost less lives than the number of Iraqi lives that are being reported killed in the last two years in Iraq.
To continue to defend this survey and its numbers, the authors must be stuck on stupid.
