Bush said: "I don't consider it a credible report.".......

[rodeodance]

I am still amazed how he can just make a declarative statement and for the most part the issue is dropped from the radar!




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2782433, Bush said: "I don't consider it a credible report."....... (here)
Posted by rodeodance on Mon Mar-26-07 07:56 PM






........ 7.30pm
Ministers were told not to rubbish Iraq deaths study


Staff and agencies
Monday March 26, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Chief government advisers accepted as "robust" research that put the death toll from the Iraq war 10 times higher than any previous estimate, new documents have revealed.

The study, by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, prompted worldwide alarm when it was published in the Lancet medical journal in October last year.

It estimated that 655,000 Iraqis had died due to the violence in the country. It has now emerged chief advisers warned ministers not to "rubbish" the report.

At the time, both the British and US governments were quick to dismiss the peer reviewed study. The Foreign Office said it was based on a "fairly small sample ...extrapolated across the country". Iraqi government data was more likely to be accurate, it added.

The US was more blunt. President George Bush said: "I don't consider it a credible report.".......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2043417,00.html

[yourout]

1. Well.....I don't consider Bush a credible president.

[malaise]

2. Bingo n/t

[texpatriot2004]

3. Me either. nm

[Botany]

4. that report like the one done before it and after it ...

.... used John's Hopkins med school, was peer reviewed by 5 persons,
checked out by M.I.T. and Q.A. / Q.C. by "Lancet"

find fault w/ the science but the data is sound.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. All science needs to be validated, is a good Publik - con to oversee

their studies... :sarcasm:

[BarbaRosa]

6. "Some say that bush is not a credible president." n/t

[ComerPerro]

7. I didn't at first. It seemed unbelievable. But its been done many times over

by different organizations with different agendas, some just wanting to observe the change in death rate.

I think the numbers might be inflated, but no one can deny that this unnecessary war has cost thousands upon thousands of lives, a large percentage of those being innocent lives.

[bumblebee1]

8. Folks,

Bush wouldn't know a credible report if it smacked him in the head.