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

[Jenifer Cartwright]

I agree w/ you, Bob... But hasn't Johns Hopkins (or ?) already gather that information, and didn't the Pentagon deny its accuracy? Of course, that and other questions should be included in the Pentagon's current surveys -- how many jobs lost, houses destroyed, persons physically or mentally/emotionally impaired, school and work days missed, money lost, etc etc -- the list of what the Pentagon should research is endless. My point was that the Pentagon is already doing surveys, and adding yr/my questions could and should be done now -- it shouldn't take 3 years (and all those millions of dollars).
 --Jenifer 


--- On Mon, 10/13/08, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died
To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
Cc: "peace discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 10:42 PM

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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