Americans underestimate Iraqi death toll

"Today, with thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead thanks to presidential folly ..."

Tens of thousands?!

So writes Paul Krugman in this week's NY Times article Substance Over Image.

When even those who make intelligent comment on the war say that tens of thousands -- not many hundreds of thousands -- of Iraqis have died because of Bush's destablization of Iraq, we are in trouble. For all Krugman's good intentions, he is another of millions of Americans who underestimate the Iraqi death toll (like millions of Australians, no doubt). The median American estimate of Iraqi deaths in this study was 9,890 ... not 655,000 as estimated in The Lancet last July. Even comparing the recent results to last July's figures, the American subjects are guessing just 8.9 per cent of the figure researched by Johns Hopkins University.

Bush's unexplained calamity is one of the greatest bloodlettings in modern history

The media silence is to be condemned worldwide. Bush's Iraq bloodbath is now of Rwanda genocide proportions. This unexplained calamity is one of the greatest bloodlettings in modern history. Let's get it right; we do cosmetic surgery on the truth at our own peril.

I dips me lid to Nora at Extra! Extra!

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