AP says Americans underestimate Iraqi death toll and then proves it

DEPLORABLE, EXACTLY WHAT THE THUGS IN THE WHITE HOUSE WANT, A PULIC WITH THEIR HEAD IN THE SAND, OR WATCHING FAUX NEWS

9/11 the world was watching, I believe the world would have known how many Americans lost their lives that day. I wonder if there is another terror attack, how many around the world would even worry or symphatize.

The Associated Press writes today that "Americans underestimate Iraqi death toll," informing us that "Among those polled for the AP survey...the median estimate of Iraqi deaths was 9,890." (...) But in reporting on the misinformation among Americans, AP echoes the same problem. Claiming that "Americans...lowball the Iraqi death toll by tens of thousands," AP makes this assertion about the real toll: Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at more than 54,000 and could be much higher; some unofficial estimates range into the hundreds of thousands. The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq reports more than 34,000 deaths in 2006 alone. The Johns Hopkins study is not an "unofficial estimate"; it's a scientifically-determined number based on a careful study published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world!!! And its result is not "tens of thousands" higher than 9,890, it is hundreds of thousands higher (at least 550,000 by now, and most likely closer to 750,000 - three-quarters of a million Iraqis)...

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