Based on this reuters story apparently 1 Million Iraqis have perished as a direct result of the war in Iraq.
“The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people had died as a result of the war, the researchers found.
The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and September 2007, was 1.7 percent, giving a range of deaths of 946,258 to 1.12 million.”
What’s wrong with this picture?
So they are saying, based on the information we have from how many households there were in 1997, 20% of house hold surveyed now have lost at least 1 member. Am I not correct in remembering that many Iraqi’s left the country prior, during, and after “major combat operations”? So how can that be accurate. If 4 million Iraqi’s have left the country, how can the 1997 estimate for the number of households in the country be used in the equation for casualties? That’s like saying that I gained 97% of my body weight since yesterday because you used my original birth weight of 9 pounds (instead of how much I weighed yesterday) in your equation.
Let me say now that I believe the war to be a mistake and find the lives lost to it to be unacceptable, but we don’t need phony-ass statistics to prove that is the case. All this does is give the morons who agree with the president something easy to refute and cast doubt upon.
When will we learn?!
January 31st, 2008 at 8:08 am
more poopaganda.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:21 am
I think it’s an attempt to try and point out the massive loss of life that has been leveled on the people of Iraq, but if you’re not going to use sound estimates that can stand up to scrutiny, then why bother? It’s only going to hurt the cause.
“Those estimates are hardly scientific.” Says the president dismissively…