Those are words used in the title of an article by an Iraqi named Omar who has a blogsite called
Iraq the Model the full title of what he wrote is
Responding to the Lancet lies...
When I read the report I can only feel apathy and inhumanity from those who did the count towards the victims and towards our suffering as a whole. I can tell they were so pleased when the equations their twisted minds designed led to those numbers and nothing can convince me that they did their so called research out of compassion or care.
To me their motives are clear, all they want is to prove that our struggle for freedom was the wrong thing to do. And they shamelessly use lies to do this…when they did not find the death they wanted to see on the ground, they faked it on paper! They disgust me…
This fake research is an insult to every man, woman and child who lost their lives.
Behind every drop of blood is a noble story of sacrifice for a just cause that is struggling for living safe in freedom and prosperity.
Those are the words used by Omar as a reaction to the Lancet study. The whole is worth reading. The blog itself is worth study. It will contain information, and sentiments you will never find in Mainstream Media reporting, and anyone who has not had their mind made up for them with agit-prop soundbites would have to ask themselves,"Why has this been hidden, covered up, suppressed ignored.
But it is true it is an emotional reactions, so there will be many who can comfort themselves that the Lancet study has facts and numbers on its side.
But does it really? It has claims but few will have looked at its facts They will read the different variations of the numbers 600K, 650K, 655K and will look no further.
The Lancet Study itself can be found on the Lancet site. Registration if free.Study estimates 655 000 excess Iraqi deaths since start of war
For most that would be complicate, involved and confusing.
Omar also wrote down his thoughts on a website called, Politics Central. Its title is a little longer. J'accuse: Iraq the Model responds to the Lancet Lies, again Omars essay is more emotional and subjective, rather than objective.
But in the comments section, one commenter brings up some very revealing statistics. Their claim can be verified in the Lancet site itself.
Soldier's Dad : states this,
I'll shoot a hole in the Lancet Study.
The mortality rate in the EU is 10.10/1000.
The Mortality rate in the US is 8.5/1000.
The mortality rate in Hungary is 13/1000
The world average mortality rate is 8.5/1000 per year.
The Lancet study uses a "baseline" mortality rate of 5.5. Half the mortality rate of Europe.
After all their fancy interviews...the Lancet Study comes up with a mortality rate for Iraq that is statistically the same as Hungary.
I must have missed it, but Hungary hasn't been at war for decades. The EU has been at peace for 60 years. They have the worlds best healthcare.
But their baseline mortality rates are more than double Saddams Iraq.
It is really easy to come up with a huge "excess deaths" number if one believes that no one ever died of anything in Iraq prior to 2003.
Iraq was an idyllic socialist paradise...unequaled since the Garden of Eden during Saddams reign.
Just ask Saddam...and not those pesky Kurds or Shiites that were mass murdered.
But then...so was the Soviet Union except for those 10's of millions that just magically "disappeared".
There is no lie too great that the hardcore leftist communists wouldn't tell.
So for those who have accepted the Lancet study as gospel and a smoking gun to denounce America with?
You must also accept as the truth that the Iraq mortality rate before the Invasion, was almost half of Europe's and in addition thirty-five percent lower that Americas. I have give above a link to the Lancet website and the study for those who wish to verify this claim. Some will not go to that much trouble, the Lancet Lies are too convenient.
Anyone who can still claim in the face of those numbers that the Lancet Study has any relationship to the truth has no idea what that word means.
There definition is instead, anything that can damage America, with no desire for what the truth really is or what the Iraqis feel.
There are those who truly want peace, at times I disagree with their opinions, but there are others who do not really care about Peace, they do not care about the Iraqi People, they merely care about how to damage America.
George Orwell once said.
"Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'"" -
Those who support Oppressive Totalitarian Regimes out of naivety are one thing, those who do it out of malice for America are another and some of them are Americans
This is nothing new, they have been with us from the beginning of the Republic.
Samuel Adams spoke of such:
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us
in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down
and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon
you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
We have an election coming up, I hope people find out about these facts and before they pull that lever, fill in those spaces, they ask themselves.
How would Samuel Adams Vote?
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Updated: Monday, 16 October 2006 4:52 AM CDT