Sunday Open Trackbacks & Reader Comments
Another Sunday, another open trackbacks and comments post, and another Tony & George myth debunked.
With more than 650,000 civilians dead in Iraq, our government must take responsibility for its lies
Our collective failure has been to take our political leaders at their word. This week the BBC reported that the government’s own scientists advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality was accurate and reliable, following a freedom of information request by the reporter Owen Bennett-Jones. This paper was published in the Lancet last October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the American and British led invasion in March 2003.
Immediately after publication, the prime minister’s official spokesman said that the Lancet’s study “was not one we believe to be anywhere near accurate”. The foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, said that the Lancet figures were “extrapolated” and a “leap”. President Bush said: “I don’t consider it a credible report”.
Scientists at the UK’s Department for International Development thought differently. They concluded that the study’s methods were “tried and tested”. Indeed, the Johns Hopkins approach would likely lead to an “underestimation of mortality”.
That’s right, even as they were decrying the report as wildly inaccurate they knew that the numbers were not the extremist propaganda they, and their government spokespeople, were making it out to be.
Some will call it political weaseling, and others will say Blair & Bush didn’t technically lie, and that will be technically correct - but nothing will change the fact that they knew that what they were trying to accomplish was a lie, and in my books that’s as good as a lie any day of the week.
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Rosie O’Donnell is now an Expert on … well … Every
We are so fortunate as a nation. Most places have a Village Idiot but just like most things, in America we have something bigger and better than that. We have Rosie O’Donnell. Yes, that’s right, not just your every day village idiot, she serves that …
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Truth and Hope Report: Weekend Review Podcast
Tonight, we talk about a politicians who’s actually doing a good job, absurd equal time laws, the possibility of a 3rd party presidential candidate, and what’s happened to our culture.
The Thinking Blogger Award
Thanks, Stanford and Angel! You’ve both given me much to think about, and though you both deserve tag backs with noms of your own, since you’ve both been tagged, I’ll try to go further afield with my own tags…
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Pet Food Recall Crisis Deepens
Pets around the country have been affected by the contamination, and the true toll is unknown. Veterinarians have been fielding calls for the past several weeks from pet owners trying to figure out what to do next. The pet food manufacturers have a c…
Point Five is Hacked
Somebody who calls himself “John 3:16″ has hacked Point Five, which is one of our favorite satire blogs, allegedly because Point Five insulted Jesus Christ. We read Point Five all the time, and you would have to be pretty stupid…
CNN Reporter Heckled McCain
Drudge breaks this one, a real April Fool for the MSM. Hot Air has more. Italics mine. During a live press conference in Baghdad, Senators McCain and Graham were heckled by CNN reporter Michael Ware. An official at the press
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I’m destroying Democracy :D
But Rosie forgot 2 breathe before typing again.