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- Now THERE'S a delightful combination.
- The vacuous musings of Donald Rumsfeld.
- It's official: we're progressive.
- Sites that really deserve more attention.
- Another member of the Canadian right-wing wankerhood.
- So much for that "not allowed to applaud" bullshit.
- The art of being lazy.
- Americans are dumb.
- Sorry, John, but there are limits to our superpowers.
- Dear Stephen: Let. It. Go.
- This should make you suitably nauseous.
- Web sites I like that are starting to piss me off.
- Still waiting ...
- The Barbara Kay investigations: when sloppy think...
- So much for that "last throes" thing.
- "The most cowardly war in history."
- Filling up for democracy: Buy your gas at Citgo.
- Donald Rumsfeld's act wearing just a bit thin.
- Your Saturday morning coffee links.
- Dear Dems: Lord, but you're a bunch of pussies, a...
- Aaaaaaaawkward ...
- Poor Peter. This must be getting tedious.
- NEWSFLASH: Iraqi insurgency in last throes of inc...
- Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
- Friday Jew blogging: When bad rabbis attack.
- Sorry, what was all that "last throes" stuff again?
- When unbounded capitalism meets painful reality.
- Hey, good news, everybody!
- Boooooooooooooring.
- December 31, 2005: Whither Iraq?
- The Washington Post, rewriting history.
- Oh, those wackily optimistic business experts.
- Apparently, God just doesn't like conservatives.
- Family values? Or wads of cash? Grapple, grapple.
- Dontcha just hate mixed messages?
- The Rachel Marsden Watch: Stewie-sized version.
- There's hyperbole, and then there's hyperbole.
- What do Barbara Kay and LGF have in common?
- Someone who gets it.
- It seemed like such a good idea at the time.
- Coming soon: The Barbara Kay watch?
- Why I'm not a big fan of organized religion.
- Canadian waterheads on parade!
- Open thread, Monday morning edition.
- Barbara Kay "academic bias" followup: a question ...
- Canada, academic "bias," and complete and utter BS.
- The power of PowerPoint.
- Those were the days.
- "As It Happens" and the 9/11 hijackers myth.
- The Terri Schiavo watch: Day 5,621.
- Time for an office pool, I think.
- Oh, man ... back into the anti-Semitism brouhaha.
- The Rachel Marsden watch: Totally gratuitous side...
- The Rachel Marsden watch: Jesus, is it worth it?
- The War on Terror: Oh, those adorable College Rep...
- Terri Schiavo: And isn't this an embarrassing deve...
- An online poll you'll really want to make a mess of.
- Continuing fun and games at Media Bias Watch.
- New York Times screws up, publishes actual facts.
- Gurmant Grewal and reality: not on the best of te...
- New blogroll coming one of these days.
- Some decisions just aren't that difficult.
- Dear American Public Broadcasting fans: You are S...
- That gosh-darned American liberal media.
- Canadian conservative values.
- More Media Bias Watch stuff.
- Another reason to really, really , REALLY hate Mic...
- Well, isn't this precious?
- Off to the races.
- Exit strategy? We don' need no steenkin' exit str...
- Just how big a dick is Pete Rempel?
- Sometimes, over-reacting just makes you look like ...
- U.S. missile defense: A bad idea, getting worse b...
- The few, the proud ... the really fucking desperate.
- "Hidden agendas" and right-wing media bias griping.
- Open thread.
- Sometimes, this is just too easy.
- Canadian right-wingers emulate U.S. counterparts a...
- Life just gets better for the Conservatives.
- And now we see what's behind the curtain.
- When Christian telemarketers attack. Or whatever.
- Sometimes, you can't even put good spin on it.
- But can any of them make a radio out of a coconut?
- Alright already, I've been book tagged!
- Alone on the high seas with Bill O'Falafel. Not.
- More academic bias nonsense south of the border.
- When high technology turns on you.
- "You can never have too many firearms."
- Well, OK, give me TWO reasons.
- ... then garnish with Velveeta slices ...
- And you thought Canadian politics was boring.
- The lighter side of Intelligent Design.
- People who no longer qualify as truly human.
- Can you explain that whole "air space sovereignty"...
- And with Monday coming up fast ...
- With apologies to Gordon Lightfoot.
- I'll take "Really weird shit" for $400, Alex.
- Things just fine here. Why do you ask?
- Really entertaining creationist wingnuttery.
- It's never too early to beat up on Tom Friedman.
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4 comments:
Has anyone else seen this story?
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1661.htm
"U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted. They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005. The ongoing, underreporting of the dead in Iraq, is not accurate. The DoD is deliberately reducing the figures. A review of many foreign news sites show that actual deaths are far higher than the newly reduced ones. Iraqi civilian casualties are never reported but International Red Cross, Red Crescent and UN figures indicate that as of 1 January 2005, the numbers are just under 100,000."
I am SO ready for impeachment proceedings.
I wish I had seen this before my previous post:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/20/24437/8204
Reckon that article looks a bit dubious... I wouldn't take this seriously without evidence (not this vague "I've got evidence but can't show you...").
Also, I don't know where he got that 100,000 figure - it's only been a short while (about 5 or 6 weeks) since the United Nations Development Program released its report of their household survey done in Iraq last year, called the "Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004". In this report they gave a figure of 24,000 deaths, with a 95 percent confidence interval from 18,000 to 29,000 deaths. While many may have died since then it's hard to see where they could have got any figures - let alone this figure... In fact the 100,000 figure looks suspiciously like the thoroughly debunked Lacet estimate.
Sorry, forgot to source those figures: http://www.iq.undp.org/ILCS/PDF/Analytical%20Report%20-%20English.pdf
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