[Peace-discuss] NYT Exploits Own Iraq Death Toll Denial to Trash Venezuela

[Robert Naiman]

It's bad enough that the editors of the New York Times have refused so
far to tell the truth about what we know about the magnitude of the
death toll in Iraq as a result of the US invasion and occupation of
the country since 2003, according to the standards that are used to
describe human tragedies for which the U.S. government does not bear
primary responsibility.

But now the New York Times has exacerbated the harm of its denial
about the Iraqi death toll, by using its own failure to accurately
report the death toll in Iraq as a benchmark for comparison to other
human tragedies: in particular, to claim that murder in Venezuela
claimed more lives in 2009 than did violence in Iraq. The New York
Times editors are like the boy who killed his parents and demanded
mercy on the grounds he was an orphan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/nyt-exploits-own-iraq-dea_b_693041.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/24/161914/546

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/688

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org

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