http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/09/iraqi_civilian.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/09/iraqi_civilian.html/comment-page-1#comment-5138 JTKeck Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:09:48 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2815#comment-5138 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq

]]> http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/09/iraqi_civilian.html/comment-page-1#comment-5116 Thomas Pepper Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:52:13 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2815#comment-5116 How is it that the *Lancet* cluster studies -- which follow the methods prescribed by the Pentagon's own field manuals -- are not given any credit here, other than being mentioned as too incredible to be believed? Nor are any estimates relating to the results of the U.S. embargo on Iraq from 1991 until 2003. Clearly, Iraqi civilian deaths are well over one million -- perhaps two million or more. That is 1/12 of the population, perhaps 1/10 -- and doesn't count millions of refugees. If the FAS believes anything the U.S. Government says, it is not the organization it once was. And giving credence to the New York Times, whose quondam Judith Miller (now of Fox News, that most reliable of sources regarding the world!) helped to get us into Iraq with her multiple sources of Chalabi, Chalabi, and Chalabi, is even worse. It would seem that Americans are pretty much divorced from any objective reality. Nobody can admit to grimly reaping what the U.S. sowed. What an awful statement about "news" in the U.S.A. How is it that the *Lancet* cluster studies — which follow the methods prescribed by the Pentagon’s own field manuals — are not given any credit here, other than being mentioned as too incredible to be believed? Nor are any estimates relating to the results of the U.S. embargo on Iraq from 1991 until 2003. Clearly, Iraqi civilian deaths are well over one million — perhaps two million or more. That is 1/12 of the population, perhaps 1/10 — and doesn’t count millions of refugees. If the FAS believes anything the U.S. Government says, it is not the organization it once was. And giving credence to the New York Times, whose quondam Judith Miller (now of Fox News, that most reliable of sources regarding the world!) helped to get us into Iraq with her multiple sources of Chalabi, Chalabi, and Chalabi, is even worse. It would seem that Americans are pretty much divorced from any objective reality. Nobody can admit to grimly reaping what the U.S. sowed. What an awful statement about “news” in the U.S.A.

]]> http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/09/iraqi_civilian.html/comment-page-1#comment-5089 After Years of Secrecy, a Glimpse Into the Numbers of Civilians Dead in Iraq - At War Blog - NYTimes.com Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:40:46 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2815#comment-5089 [...] latest report, dated Sept. 17, is by the Congressional Research Service. A copy of the report was posted online by Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American [...] [...] latest report, dated Sept. 17, is by the Congressional Research Service. A copy of the report was posted online by Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American [...]

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