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Originally Posted by shek
Sombra,
The Lancet report can be discredited on its own terms. However, that doesn't necessarily discredit the notion that OIF has created excess deaths.
The problem is that most people don't understand the term "excess" deaths, and so too many arguments argue about apples and oranges. My thoughts are that OIF has created excess deaths by this point, with the unleashing of sectarian violence being the cause that has made the post war period more deadly. I'll post more later - got to go to work.
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One of the main problems in the lancet report are two facts at least for me.
Reliable numbers of mortality before the war and the number of deaths certificates claimed.
Still, it is not only the people killed through direct violence which they are trying to count but the number of deaths due to the higher mortality. (This includes the old man dying of heat stroke becaue no electricity is avaible, children dying of dirty water etc, bombs, murders, military action.
Right now there are round about 100 violent deaths per day which are noted you dont know how many bodies you never find.
Up to now the US government doesnt even try to counter with numbers or a report on their own.