Welcome to the spectacular surprises of October 2006. A tour de force in the political theater of the absurd. Let’s review:
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Lastly, an election-year October has again brought us a study in the British medical journal Lancet. Pollsters visited 1,841 Iraqi households and reported of 547 deaths attributable to violence since the 2003 invasion, from which they extrapolated an estimate of approximately 655,000 Iraqis killed in the last 3years. That works out to more than 500 a day, or 15,000 a month on average.
That the estimate is not supported by the existence of any mountain of bodies or any other evidence or logic is no obstacle to the social scientists who insist their methodology is sound.
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