Uncategorized 11 Oct 2006 05:17 pm
Much worse than Saddam
I’m a bit slow on the uptake, because I hear this is all over the news today.
A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
In other words, we are worse for the Iraqi people than Saddam, at least in terms of death rates. In fact, we’re more than twice as bad. Death rates in Iraq were 5.5 per 1,000 pre-invasion, and 13.3 per 1,000 post invasion.
on 12 Oct 2006 at 7:56 am 1.Alexander said …
Hey Michelle, glad you wondered/wandered at the Spectrum Blog.
Proud to say, the Johns Hopkins public health director in charge of that Iraqi deaths survey, Gil Burnham, is an Adventist. So apparently at least some folks think beyound 3ABN.