{"id":1539,"date":"2007-09-08T18:16:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/08\/parameters-vii\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T23:24:27","slug":"parameters-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/08\/parameters-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"Parameters VII:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>So, since all this business about the Surge has been in the forefront of the news, I&#8217;ve been looking for the Iraqi Civilian statistics, but I couldn&#8217;t find what I was looking for. Now, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004098.php\"><font color=\"#990000\"><strong>TPM<\/strong><\/font><\/a> points out why I couldn&#8217;t find them [they&#8217;re no longer there]:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span class=\"entry_body\">One of the most credible Iraq-casualties tabulations, crunched by the United Nations, was lost this year after the Iraqi government, embarrassed by the high reported death toll, refused the U.N. access to Health Ministry statistics. <\/span>And it&#8217;s not hard to see why: here are the 2006 numbers from the U.N., month by month, versus an AP-reported month-to-month breakdown of figures compiled from the Iraqi ministries of defense, health and interior.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"265\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/iraqi_civilians.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">There&#8217;s a four-fold discrepency. So besides the suspicion that Petraeus is feeding us jury-rigged statistics, one wonders if the numbers are even accurate at all &#8211; even without their September Massage. That represents, by the way, <strong>37,037<\/strong> Iraqi Civilians killed in 2006 in Bush&#8217;s War [Not that it matters. Bush&#8217;s mind is made up.]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, since all this business about the Surge has been in the forefront of the news, I&#8217;ve been looking for the Iraqi Civilian statistics, but I couldn&#8217;t find what I was looking for. Now, TPM points out why I couldn&#8217;t find them [they&#8217;re no longer there]: One of the most credible Iraq-casualties tabulations, crunched by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}