Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
“…what’s your point. 100K, 600K, 1K…. all dead on a pack of lies….a lot of innocent civilians have died as a direct result of the US invading Iraq. What have we gained from it…or better yet, what have we lost from it….a helluva lot.”
I love the anti-American leftwing (ie, MSM, hollywood, democrat party) who continually cite the “lies” and “deceptions” that “Bush” supposedly used as a precept to go into Iraq. However, the leftists also point to the NIE from “16 intelligence agencies” as proof that the opening the Iraq theater in the war against Islamic jihadis is “producing more terrorists”. You can’t have it two ways – the intelligence the WH and US Congress saw prior to entering Iraq was gathered and analyzed by the same agencies that produced the NIE. So that must be “lies” too, or not because it supports the anti-Americans’ views? Hmmm…..
As for this so-called “perfesser”, well, there are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics. This “study” doesn’t pass the “stink test” that we use on this type of publication. Seems the lads over at Lancet are of the same ilk as those over at the NYT, the Boston Globe, or some other leftist fishwrap.
