On 1/22/07, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > then why did you bother? > Because I'm tired of the crap.
you take the words out of my keyboard.... > I did a bit of real research, Human Rights Watch for the estimate of > the Kurdish death toll. www.GlobalSecurity.org has a nice set of numbers > for the Iran Iraq war estimates, they agree in general with several > other sources. www.kuwait-embassy.or.jp for the Kuwait numbers. There > were a number of places that had minimum and maximum numbers for total > dead from the Ba'athist regimes over 30 years, I took two that were > neither the highest nor lowest figures. nobody's defending saddam. it's just that in a lot of places the US isn't perceived as being very different. statistics like the one provided by JHU often support that perception. > It's very difficult to find data on genocidal regimes such as the Ba'ath > party under Saddam, they tend to not file reports with the UN about > their illegitimate activities. By the way, anyone who's done any > "Social Science", (and I use the word science very loosely in this > context), research will tell you that survey data is not to be trusted, > especially if there are actual bodies that can be counted. It seems > that the JHU never heard that, at least based on the article as I read it. you can always ask them (and MIT which supported the study) to shut up and go home.... regards, subash > SJ wrote: > > i got my figures of casualties in iraq after the US invasion > > (6,50,000 total, 3000 american) from a peer-reviewed findings of the > > the School of Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University. see here: > > > > http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/16oct06/16iraq.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
