http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2006/10/11/315/ Thoughts by Stephen Soldz on war, peace, politics, psychoanalysis, and research methods Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:11:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2006/10/11/315/comment-page-1/#comment-7933 Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word « athenaeum Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:43:48 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2006/10/11/315/#comment-7933 [...] It is for this reason that the death toll is higher than say the Iraq Body Count estimates which cites over 48,693 violent civilian deaths post 2003 invasion. Daniel Davies comments that “If you go out and ask 12,000 people whether a family member has died and get reports of 300 deaths from violence, then that is not consistent with there being only 60,000 deaths from violence in a country of 26 million. It is not even nearly consistent.” John Zogby is just as forceful, “I don’t think that there’s anybody in my business who responsibly believes that 30,000 to 40,000 or 45,000 Iraqis have been killed since March of 2003.” [...] [...] It is for this reason that the death toll is higher than say the Iraq Body Count estimates which cites over 48,693 violent civilian deaths post 2003 invasion. Daniel Davies comments that “If you go out and ask 12,000 people whether a family member has died and get reports of 300 deaths from violence, then that is not consistent with there being only 60,000 deaths from violence in a country of 26 million. It is not even nearly consistent.” John Zogby is just as forceful, “I don’t think that there’s anybody in my business who responsibly believes that 30,000 to 40,000 or 45,000 Iraqis have been killed since March of 2003.” [...]

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