[Peace-discuss] Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died

[Robert Naiman]

It's one thing to say that the country is a mess. It's another thing
to estimate the number of Iraqi dead. The US government has studiously
avoided this. This is a point that should be pressed.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Jenifer Cartwright
<jencart13 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Three YEARS??? This would be embarrassing if it weren't so obscene. The
> Pentagon has already been conducting polls on a regular basis, and it has
> MORE than enuff info to show that the country is a mess and that the US has
> no business being there anymore (not that it ever did) UNLESS it plans to
> participate in massive clean-up efforts, organize programs to make
> restitution for the damage the US has done to Iraq and its people, and take
> some of the 4 MILLION persons displaced because if the US invasion.
>
> How many killed?? Read about what's it's like to live in Iraq these days,
> and you feel like the ones who were killed were the lucky ones.
>  http://thegroundtruth.blogspot.com/2008/10/pentagon-public-opinion-poll-of-iraqis.html
>  --Jenifer
>
> --- On Mon, 10/13/08, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died
> To: "peace discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 8:14 PM
>
> The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon plans to poll Iraqis. By
> asking, "How many members of your household have died since March, 2003?"
> the Pentagon could construct an estimate of Iraqi deaths since the U.S.
> invasion. Congress should require the Pentagon to do so.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/pentagon-challenge-ask-ir_b_134370.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/13/20528/149
>
> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36844
>
> http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pentagon-Challenge-Ask-Ir-by-Robert-Naiman-081013-923.html
>
>
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> Robert Naiman
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> Ambassador Pickering on Iran Talks and Multinational Enrichment
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGZFrFxVg8A
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Ambassador Pickering on Iran Talks and Multinational Enrichment
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGZFrFxVg8A