On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I know that some people on the left have been skeptical about estimates of
> how many Iraqis the US has killed. This is from an article by John Mueller
> in the forthcoming Nov/Dec issue of Foreign Affairs
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> Recall that Foreign Affairs had an article several years ago arguing that
> the sanctions had killed more Iraqis than all the weapons of mass
> destruction had in all of history.
Just for the record that article ("Sanctions of Mass Destruction") was written by the same guy, along with his brother Karl Mueller. It's not really at all a surprise that he accepts the Lancet's methodology.
Michael