[lbo-talk] Re: Iraq excess death study up

[Carl Remick]

>From: Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk>
>
>.... I would repeat,
>without much hope, my plea that people should not obsess on the point 
>estimate
>of 650k excess deaths, but more on the very high degree of confidence with
>which we can say a) things have got worse, not better and b) they have got 
>a
>lot worse, not a little bit worse. ...

Another key point was made by some guy in the Guardian's "Comment Is Free," 
i.e.:

"There has to be some accountability here. It is not good enough for the 
pro-intervention community to shrug their shoulders and say that the 
fatalities caused by the insurgents are not our fault and not part of the 
moral calculus. I would surely like to see the insurgents in the ICC on war 
crimes charges, but the Nuremberg convention was also correct to say that 
aggression was 'the supreme international crime differing only from other 
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the 
whole'. The people who started this war of aggression need to face up to the 
fact, and that is a political issue."

<http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/daniel_davies/2006/10/how_to_not_lie_with_statistics.html>

Any resolution of the Iraq conflict that doesn't feature imprisonment or 
capital punishment for Bush and Blair won't be a resolution at all.

Carl