Bogus Lancet Study Gets a Good Fisking

Just before the 2004 election Lancet published a study claiming that more than 100,000 Iraqis died as a result of the US invasion. David Kane, an Institute Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, rips this bogus study apart. About the Lancet Study, Rick Moran notes:

What should have been the tip off to the study’s uselessness was the contention that “most of the excess deaths” were the result of violence and that “80% of those deaths were the result of air strikes.

Unless the US was carrying on a massive bombing campaign that killed tens of thousands of civilians without the media, the UN, the Iraqis themselves, or anyone else knowing anything about it, that statement was either a laughable corruption of statistics or a bald faced lie..

Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House is very negative on the Iraq War though:

Iraq is an open wound, bleeding as a result of our ministrations. Even though the surge is showing some signs of success in some areas – less so in others, the political differences that divide the country are a chasm that no one seems willing or able to bridge. Until the Iraqis decide they wish to live together in peace, the body count will continue to rise. The only question is will more die if we leave than if we stay.

And no one knows the answer – no one has any answers that would allow us the luxury of a quick exit

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