[extropy-chat] Who thinks the Bush admin lied over Iraq? Onwhatbasis?

Alfio Puglisi puglisi at arcetri.astro.it
Fri Jul 15 19:04:48 UTC 2005


On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>
>On the contrary, the Red Cross estimated 10,000 deaths from the start
>of hostilities through Feb 2004, so the above sites current count of
>22,000-25,000 seems a little high, but not excessively so. As the Red
>Cross has several hundred people in-country and works closely to
>support the Red Crescent, which has thousands of people all over Iraq,
>I would trust their numbers.

So now the question becomes why the estimates differ so much. I briefly
googled to find the methods used by the Red Cross in their estimate, but
didn't find them.

Alfio



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