![]() ![]() One of the ways - one of the things that you could say is, the amazing thing is we are been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government. So, they do - there's a tremendous sense of fear. Many of them respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as much as anybody here, and individual freedom. There's a lot of anxiety inside the - you know, our professional military and our intelligence people. In the transcript to a live interview, Sey Hersh, who first exposed the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in the New Yorker magazine in April 2004 and author of "Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib", who also broke the My Lai story 35 years ago in Viet Nam, says, "I just don't see any evidence of significant exaggeration," he says. Researchers typically conduct surveys in 30 neighborhoods, so the Iraq study's total of 33 strengthens its conclusions. Toole, head of the Center for International Health at the Burnet Institute, an Australian research organization. "That's a classical sample size," says Michael J. Scientists say the size of the survey was adequate for extrapolation to the entire country. ![]() Roberts says, chances are good that the actual number of deaths caused by the invasion and occupation is higher than 100,000. The number of deaths in Fallujah was so much higher than in other locations that the researchers excluded the data from their overall estimate as a statistical outlier. While 21 of the deaths elsewhere were attributable to violence, in Fallujah 52 of the 53 deaths were due to violence. In the other 32 neighborhoods combined, the researchers had counted 89 deaths. The Fallujah data were chilling: 53 deaths had taken place in the study's 30 households there since the invasion commenced, on March 19, 2003. Given that the chance was high of an interviewer's or researcher's getting killed there, the study would be better served by getting the other data first. ![]() The researchers had done a haunting bit of calculus before the journey. Lafta went to violence-racked Fallujah with the only interviewer willing to travel there. The researchers saved the most dangerous location for last. Now the researchers are wondering why their carefully researched study was ignored. Remember that study in the British journal "The Lancet" three months ago that determined that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a direct result of the Operation Iraqi Freedom? Seems it was buried in the pre-election news. ![]()
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