3/15/2008
Terry Bisson props ORB, claiming it’s PEW Research
But… but… but… the surge is WORKING! (Part leventy-zillion)
Yes, kiddies, Our Grand And Benevolent Leader™’s Magificent Victorious Surge© has been an Unqualified Rousing Success®!
The number of Iraqis killed daily has nearly doubled, from an average of 20 in January to 39 in the first two weeks of March. The total death count of Iraqis is now well over 1 million, a staggering number. But sadly a number that too few people are aware of, as a recent Pew study suggest. In fact, only 28% of those surveyed knew that our own American casualties is just under 4,000, while nearly half believed it to be 3,000 or fewer.
Spread the word! Sound the horns! Dance in the streets!
bwahahaha! Sometimes I’m amazed that meatbrain claims to be a grown man.
Where’s the link to the PEW Research study?
Asking the same person the same question twice is not confirmation of anything; other than stupidity-or a desperate desire to listen to only one side of an argument.
What they’re referring to is a new (old) survey by ORB (re-released after nobody paid attention to it in September 2007), which beats on that same tired old drum: the civilian death toll from the war could be more than 1 million; but this not only defies common sense, you need to go back to where this overinflated figure comes from: the Lancet study. The ORB study was done in partnership with the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies that was also the research partner for the Lancet Study.
Comments at meatbrain’s site fall in line with the laments from the World Socialist website which demanded: “Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths?” What the Lancet study should be met with is healthy skepticism, since the 925 Lancet deaths extrapolated to the U.S. population would mean 10,763 killings a day. Which is-at the very least-implausible; if not totally ridiculous.
Mike Fumento: ..the editor of the Lancet, physician Richard Horton, has unapologetically used the journal for advocacy on other issues, including a notorious 1998 paper that created an international panic over the safety of the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella [the MMR] – linking it to autism and bowel disease.
That paper became a full-fledged scandal, with 10 of its 13 authors demanding their names be withdrawn from it. The other three are fighting to keep their medical licenses. Horton’s reaction? He proudly said he had “no regrets” and pompously declared: “Progress in medicine depends on the free expression of new ideas.” (The British press reported “an unprecedented surge of measles cases” this summer, probably traceable to unwarranted fears of the vaccine. Some progress.)
Horton spoke at a rally in 2006 sponsored by Stop the War Coalition, a British group set up on September 21, 2001, which is to say its purpose was to oppose punishing and defeating the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack. At the rally, Horton shouted about the “mountain of violence and torture” in Iraq – and no, he wasn’t talking about Saddam. “This axis of Anglo-American imperialism extends its influence through war and conflict, gathering power and wealth as it goes, so millions of people are left to die in poverty and disease,” he angrily added. Watch the histrionics on YouTube. This is not your father’s medical journal editor.
As National Journal revealed, Lancet’s 2006 study was about half funded by antiwar billionaire George Soros, who in a November 2003 Washington Post interview said that removing President Bush from office was the “central focus of my life” and “a matter of life and death.” This no doubt explains the release of the Lancet study four weeks before the 2006 midterm elections, just as Lancet’s 2004 study was released days before the presidential election. Even the magazine’s ardent defenders don’t claim the timing was a coincidence.
Spread the word! Sound the horns! Dance in the streets!
I will dance in the streets. I will dance over good news that Terry Bisson doesn’t dare talk about: Sons of Iraq member turns in weapons cache (Arab Jabour); ISOF, U.S. Special Forces capture suspected leaders of three terrorist cells responsible for attacks; Large weapons cache found in Jabella; Marines have removed their body armor in Anbar province because it is so safe. In Karbala there is a small coalition presence because of its stability; yet no pollster came to either area!
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division is constructing 142 Primary Healthcare Centers - worth more than $132 million – across Iraq. Currently, 73 clinics are completed and 23 are open and seeing upwards of 350 patients a day…and the list of these types of things-which equates to -horror of horrors-good news!- goes on and on.
The only thing he’s proven is…he’s stuck on debunking the idea that the surge is a success; and refuses to even look at what the military claims is going on in these areas. Because God forbid that we should win…he’s pulling for us to loose; just as the Code Pink and anarcho socialists are.
You know what is sick…meatbrain’s belittling Iraqi deaths. Meatbrain’s wishing and hoping that over 1 million Iraqis are dead. People who flock to Winter Soldier in order to see pictures of mutiliated bodies and hunger for vague stories with no dates or names claiming to have perpetrated war crimes on innocent civilians. This is a mental illness. Plus, if there were that many dead, don’t you think we’d see graves and morgues stuffed with dead bodies…and hear complaints from the Iraqi government that they can’t bury them fast enough? This is more hard left propaganda.
Islamic finance has boomed - that’s why guys like Auchi are wanted by interpol for pilfering millions of dollars of funds that don’t belong to them.
