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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN: Thank you, Mr. President. Back on Iraq, a group of American and Iraqi health officials today released a report saying that 655,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq war. That figure is 20 times the figure that you cited in December at 30,000. Do you care to amend or update your figure and do you consider this a credible report?
PRESIDENT BUSH: No, I don’t consider it a credible report, neither does General Casey and neither do Iraqi officials. I do know that a lot of innocent people have died and it troubles me and grieves me. And I applaud the Iraqis for their courage in the face of violence. I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to — you know, that there’s a level of violence that they tolerate.
Wow. Just wow.
posted by Ish at 9:55 AM
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this is fun, and even though it's outdated, it still holds up.
The Bush Press Conference Response Generator
Suzanne Malveaux is hot.
Random comment to this post but wanted to get this article over here. Left it at K's blog too.
http://www.sanfran.com/archives/view_story/1282/
If you haven't read it, I think the contributors to this blog might find a sliver of hope in it.
Holy shit. How did I miss that?
Didn't he just say we need to crack down on North Dakota?
Hi delurking here, to add info on the study and methodology of the study. A good article is found here: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/index.html”>
with links to the report itself.
And, This American Life did a story on 10/28/05 called Truth, Damn Truth, and Statistics. It is about collecting this kind of data. Fascinating.
Go to http://thislife.org/ then click on '05' under the archives on the left nav. Scroll down to 10/28.
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