Quickie from the BBC
I'm in the middle of a presentation to some folks from the Small Arms Survey, an outfit out of Geneva that funds a lot of our research on disarmament. And they are all smiles today because a study they funded in Iraq just got published in the British medical journal Lancet. The conclusion of this study, which seems methodologically sound, is that 100,000 excess Iraqi deaths have occurred since the invasion.
It also shows that violence is now the #1 cause of death. Before the war it was heart disease.
The risk of death by violence has risen 58%.
Supposedly the article got play on ABC, CBS, CNN and NY Times, but I checked their websites and couldn't find it. I suspect that these findings will scare a lot fo US editors.
The UK on the other hand will likely be greatly troubled. Jack Straw has already said the government will investigate. (Can you imagine anyone from the Bush administration saying that?). Take a look at the article. It's pretty chilling. Will we ever pay for what we have done there?
It also shows that violence is now the #1 cause of death. Before the war it was heart disease.
The risk of death by violence has risen 58%.
Supposedly the article got play on ABC, CBS, CNN and NY Times, but I checked their websites and couldn't find it. I suspect that these findings will scare a lot fo US editors.
The UK on the other hand will likely be greatly troubled. Jack Straw has already said the government will investigate. (Can you imagine anyone from the Bush administration saying that?). Take a look at the article. It's pretty chilling. Will we ever pay for what we have done there?
posted by Benjamin Lessing at 2:52 PM
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