Anti-War George Soros Funded Iraq Study

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NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: Sinsear
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
It was estimated that under Saddam there were 500,000 Iraqis a year dying due to sanctions. So 650,000 vs. 2,500,000. Apparently those against the war are willing to sacrifice close to an additional 2,000,000 Iraqis to maintain the status quo.

Iraqi conditions are far far worse now than even during the sanctions. So it stands to reason that Iraqis are dying in higher numbers now than then.
Not according to the numbers that get bandied about. You have any proof they are dying in higher numbers now or are you just pulling that statement straight out of your rear end?

Why shouldn't they be dying more now that conditions are worse?
Your opinion on the conditions in Iraq do not constitute fact. Stop trying to create a strawman of an argument. If you have proof that more than 2,500,000 have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion please present it. If not, stop trying to use vapidly poor rationalizations.

Hehehe, you are the one swinging vapidly poor rationalizations about to support the invasion. You are the one using the logic that it is ok to kill Iraqis in their hundreds of thousands to support US policy in the region.

I do not know exactly how many hundreds of thousands Iraqis have died as a result of US politics. But unlike you I think it is time to stop this genocide.


Hell yeah! There it is; accusing America of genocide. :roll:

Our government is on trial here, not the American people. Don't spin it.
 

NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
It was estimated that under Saddam there were 500,000 Iraqis a year dying due to sanctions. So 650,000 vs. 2,500,000. Apparently those against the war are willing to sacrifice close to an additional 2,000,000 Iraqis to maintain the status quo.

Iraqi conditions are far far worse now than even during the sanctions. So it stands to reason that Iraqis are dying in higher numbers now than then.
Not according to the numbers that get bandied about. You have any proof they are dying in higher numbers now or are you just pulling that statement straight out of your rear end?

Why shouldn't they be dying more now that conditions are worse?
Your opinion on the conditions in Iraq do not constitute fact. Stop trying to create a strawman of an argument. If you have proof that more than 2,500,000 have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion please present it. If not, stop trying to use vapidly poor rationalizations.

His opinion? Ok, how about the testimony of the lady in this video? Does that constitute "living conditions" for you?
You mean this woman? Surely an anti-war activist would have no bias. :roll:

Yeah, how could anyone not like having their country occupied by foreign invaders? I mean god, the audacity of that woman! We sure as hell would love to have china occupying the U.S. :roll:

Are you retarded?
 

Lemon law

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I see blackaignst1 provides a perfect foil for the question implied which is----Please tell me where this 3/4 of a million people are buried? You would think they would be running out of cemetary room in the more densely populated areas by now; I would think there would probably be a news story about it somewhere.


Google "mass graves in iraq" and you get lots of info. Here's just one
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The point is that with the US Iraqi occupation their families find and bury the corpses in Iraqi cemeteries all over the country. And the families don't report the death for fear that they too will be then tracked and killed.

Under Saddam, masses of people were simple herded to pre dug pits and executed assembly line style. And then tossed into pits and buried by the same machines that dug the pits. As the link blackaignst1 provided, Saddam was a horrible war criminal. And the world is better off now that he is dead. But if we look at the blackaignst1 link, it details less than 250,000 killed under Saddam. The number of Iraqis killed by Saddam is some unknown higher number.

But we are now LOOKING AT A POINT where the GWB&co inspired occupation has indeed violently resulted in more Iraqi deaths than Saddam.

WHEN THE GWB BUNGLED OCCUPATION OF IRAQ KILLS MORE THAN SADDAM, we have clearly reached a HORROR POINT.
 

GrGr

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Originally posted by: Sinsear
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
It was estimated that under Saddam there were 500,000 Iraqis a year dying due to sanctions. So 650,000 vs. 2,500,000. Apparently those against the war are willing to sacrifice close to an additional 2,000,000 Iraqis to maintain the status quo.

Iraqi conditions are far far worse now than even during the sanctions. So it stands to reason that Iraqis are dying in higher numbers now than then.
Not according to the numbers that get bandied about. You have any proof they are dying in higher numbers now or are you just pulling that statement straight out of your rear end?

Why shouldn't they be dying more now that conditions are worse?
Your opinion on the conditions in Iraq do not constitute fact. Stop trying to create a strawman of an argument. If you have proof that more than 2,500,000 have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion please present it. If not, stop trying to use vapidly poor rationalizations.

Hehehe, you are the one swinging vapidly poor rationalizations about to support the invasion. You are the one using the logic that it is ok to kill Iraqis in their hundreds of thousands to support US policy in the region.

I do not know exactly how many hundreds of thousands Iraqis have died as a result of US politics. But unlike you I think it is time to stop this genocide.


Hell yeah! There it is; accusing America of genocide. :roll:

Genocide: the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation.

Since the US deliberately is crushing the Iraqi people under it's boot it is genocide.








 

Pabster

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Originally posted by: Slick5150
I'd like to see Pabster specifically address what has been pointed out here that the two studies are looking at two different things, and that the George Soros funded study is in no way proven wrong by the other.

I don't know whether the two studies were looking at different things. What I do know is that Soros funded the one claiming 650,000 deaths which is factually inaccurate. Let me cite the relevant passage from the article I linked:

Professor John Tirman of MIT said this weekend that $46,000 (£23,000) of the approximate £50,000 cost of the study had come from Soros?s Open Society Institute.

I get tired of seeing all these fricking threads where somebody declares something an outrage, gets proven to be wrong about the basis for this outrage, and refuses to say a word in response. You made the statement, have the balls to back it up.

I did.
 
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Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
It was estimated that under Saddam there were 500,000 Iraqis a year dying due to sanctions. So 650,000 vs. 2,500,000. Apparently those against the war are willing to sacrifice close to an additional 2,000,000 Iraqis to maintain the status quo.

Iraqi conditions are far far worse now than even during the sanctions. So it stands to reason that Iraqis are dying in higher numbers now than then.
Not according to the numbers that get bandied about. You have any proof they are dying in higher numbers now or are you just pulling that statement straight out of your rear end?

Why shouldn't they be dying more now that conditions are worse?
Your opinion on the conditions in Iraq do not constitute fact. Stop trying to create a strawman of an argument. If you have proof that more than 2,500,000 have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion please present it. If not, stop trying to use vapidly poor rationalizations.

His opinion? Ok, how about the testimony of the lady in this video? Does that constitute "living conditions" for you?
You mean this woman? Surely an anti-war activist would have no bias. :roll:

Yeah, how could anyone not like having their country occupied by foreign invaders? I mean god, the audacity of that woman! We sure as hell would love to have china occupying the U.S. :roll:

Are you retarded?
You constantly move around your argument. First it was death. Now it's occupation.

Go learn how to have a discussion without throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks. Then come back after you figure things out.

Thanks.
 

Pabster

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PS folks, can we try to stay on topic here? The point I was making was strictly that Soros funded an anti-war study. I didn't make any claims about [insert number here] deaths being 'acceptable' or some other number not.

And cut the Ron Paul spam and discussion. You Paulbots can have your own damn threads. :|
 

NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Your opinion on the conditions in Iraq do not constitute fact. Stop trying to create a strawman of an argument. If you have proof that more than 2,500,000 have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion please present it. If not, stop trying to use vapidly poor rationalizations.

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

His opinion? Ok, how about the testimony of the lady in this video? Does that constitute "living conditions" for you?

As you see here my post was in response to living conditions, you said he had no facts, I provided them.

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

You mean this woman? Surely an anti-war activist would have no bias. :roll:

Then you try to discredit her because she is ant-war.

Originally posted by: PC SurgeonYeah, how could anyone not like having their country occupied by foreign invaders? I mean god, the audacity of that woman! We sure as hell would love to have china occupying the U.S. :roll:

Are you retarded?

Here's where I point out your stupidity in thinking and error in judgment. She is not just anyone, she is an Iraqi, speaking for them and their living conditions.


Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You constantly move around your argument. First it was death. Now it's occupation.

Actually I have made my case pretty clear that I followed the argument until you cut and run.

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Go learn how to have a discussion without throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks. Then come back after you figure things out.

Thanks.

Actually, as shown above, it is you that needs to learn how to have a discussion and follow the topic. This is your tactic. Whenever you get pushed into a corner, you berate the person and run. Coward. What a sad little man you are.




 

NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: Pabster
PS folks, can we try to stay on topic here? The point I was making was strictly that Soros funded an anti-war study. I didn't make any claims about [insert number here] deaths being 'acceptable' or some other number not.

And cut the Ron Paul spam and discussion. You Paulbots can have your own damn threads. :|

You need to talk to corbett about that shit. You anti-paulbots are worse the Ron Paul supporters IMO.
 

Lemon law

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Originally posted by: Pabster
PS folks, can we try to stay on topic here? The point I was making was strictly that Soros funded an anti-war study. I didn't make any claims about [insert number here] deaths being 'acceptable' or some other number not.

And cut the Ron Paul spam and discussion. You Paulbots can have your own damn threads. :|
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Pabster, Quit trying to engage in revisionist history.

This is what you said and I quote----Anti-War George Soros Funded Iraq Study
Topic Summary: Which Claimed 650,000 Deaths, And Was Wrong

The point is that someone like Rush Limbaugh might get away with making such an argument
with a captive audience of unthinking idiots, but if you want to be an unthinking idiot and try to sell the same argument on P&N, as you discovered, you are going to get totally shot down because you have no logic to support your conclusion.

Bottom line, you did not question your own argument and emotionally assumed we would therefore buy it also. Most of us are not you and that kind of leaves you out of touch Pabster.
So you blame PAULBOTS?????????
 

Pabster

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Originally posted by: Lemon law
Pabster, Quit trying to engage in revisionist history.

This is what you said and I quote----Anti-War George Soros Funded Iraq Study
Topic Summary: Which Claimed 650,000 Deaths, And Was Wrong

The point is that someone like Rush Limbaugh might get away with making such an argument
with a captive audience of unthinking idiots, but if you want to be an unthinking idiot and try to sell the same argument on P&N, as you discovered, you are going to get totally shot down because you have no logic to support your conclusion.

Bottom line, you did not question your own argument and emotionally assumed we would therefore buy it also. Most of us are not you and that kind of leaves you out of touch Pabster.
So you blame PAULBOTS?????????

First, I'm honored to be compared to the most popular talk radio host in the USA. Thanks! :laugh:

Second, there's nothing wrong with the thread title or the topic summary. They're both accurate. Soros funded the study, and it was factually inaccurate.

Lemon, you're so far out of touch with reality sometimes that I question your very sanity. You seem to love personal attacks and obfuscation, but come up dishearteningly short in the fact and evidence categories. :roll:
 

Sinsear

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Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: Corbett
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: Corbett
Originally posted by: GrGr
[Since the US deliberately is crushing the Iraqi people under it's boot it is genocide.

Proof?

The US invasion of Iraq.

That proves we are "crushing" the Iraqi people?

The proof is in the pudding.


There is no proof; you are full of shit.
 

Sinsear

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Originally posted by: Lemon law

The point is that with the US Iraqi occupation their families find and bury the corpses in Iraqi cemeteries all over the country. And the families don't report the death for fear that they too will be then tracked and killed.


Horseshit. A supposed 3/4 of a million buried in a few years would be noticeable anywhere. What do you think that these Iraqis who are so "oppressed" drive half way across the country to bury their dead in obscure cemetaries?

Face it; that number is inflated and no more tenable than the other jackass in this thread accusing the US of genocide.
 

Sinsear

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Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Our government is on trial here, not the American people. Don't spin it.


No one is on trial; unless I missed the subpoenas and indictments (and a Ron Paul video will not suffice).
 

GrGr

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Originally posted by: Sinsear
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: Corbett
Originally posted by: GrGr
Originally posted by: Corbett
Originally posted by: GrGr
[Since the US deliberately is crushing the Iraqi people under it's boot it is genocide.

Proof?

The US invasion of Iraq.

That proves we are "crushing" the Iraqi people?

The proof is in the pudding.


There is no proof; you are full of shit.

The proof is obvious. The US is in Iraq killing Iraqis.
 

NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: Sinsear
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

Our government is on trial here, not the American people. Don't spin it.


No one is on trial; unless I missed the subpoenas and indictments (and a Ron Paul video will not suffice).

Since you can't gather this with your own mind, I'll spell it out for you.

T h e

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b e i n g

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f i g u r a t i v e l y.
 
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Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Your opinion on the conditions in Iraq do not constitute fact. Stop trying to create a strawman of an argument. If you have proof that more than 2,500,000 have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion please present it. If not, stop trying to use vapidly poor rationalizations.

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

His opinion? Ok, how about the testimony of the lady in this video? Does that constitute "living conditions" for you?

As you see here my post was in response to living conditions, you said he had no facts, I provided them.
That's right. I forgot that besides trying to accuse someone of finding death acceptable, and using the "OMG, how would you like a Chinese occupation?" talking point, you also tried to move to living conditions in Iraq. What next? "Think of the children."?

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

You mean this woman? Surely an anti-war activist would have no bias. :roll:

Then you try to discredit her because she is ant-war.
I did not discredit her. I discredited YOU, fool. You were trying to use the speech of an anti-war activist, which btw was made in 2006 and doesn't reflect today's conditions by ay means, as any sort of meaningful metric to back up the claim about how bad things are in Iraq.

Originally posted by: PC SurgeonYeah, how could anyone not like having their country occupied by foreign invaders? I mean god, the audacity of that woman! We sure as hell would love to have china occupying the U.S. :roll:

Are you retarded?
Here's where I point out your stupidity in thinking and error in judgment. She is not just anyone, she is an Iraqi, speaking for them and their living conditions.
No, there's where you make a stupid diversionary argument. You made no point. You were merely swining wildly with whatever talking point came to your head. A talking point that had NOTHING to do with the OP.

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You constantly move around your argument. First it was death. Now it's occupation.

Actually I have made my case pretty clear that I followed the argument until you cut and run.
Whoa. You've even broken out another poor tactic with that statement. Congrats on digging that hole even deeper.
 

NoStateofMind

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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Your opinion on the conditions in Iraq do not constitute fact. Stop trying to create a strawman of an argument. If you have proof that more than 2,500,000 have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion please present it. If not, stop trying to use vapidly poor rationalizations.

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon

His opinion? Ok, how about the testimony of the lady in this video? Does that constitute "living conditions" for you?

As you see here my post was in response to living conditions, you said he had no facts, I provided them.
That's right. I forgot that besides trying to accuse someone of finding death acceptable, and using the "OMG, how would you like a Chinese occupation?" talking point, you also tried to move to living conditions in Iraq. What next? "Think of the children."?

No, if you had half a brain you could follow along with the conversation. Do you have some mental disability I should be aware of? Can you read? Follow points?

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

You mean this woman? Surely an anti-war activist would have no bias. :roll:

Then you try to discredit her because she is ant-war.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I did not discredit her. I discredited YOU, fool. You were trying to use the speech of an anti-war activist, which btw was made in 2006 and doesn't reflect today's conditions by ay means, as any sort of meaningful metric to back up the claim about how bad things are in Iraq.

You discredit yourself, fool. You TRIED to discredit her by way of insinuation, her being "anti-war". Anyone can see through that tactic. So what if it was made in 2006, she makes points that are fact. Those facts in which you said couldn't be provided. Again, follow along here.
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: PC SurgeonYeah, how could anyone not like having their country occupied by foreign invaders? I mean god, the audacity of that woman! We sure as hell would love to have china occupying the U.S. :roll:

Are you retarded?
Here's where I point out your stupidity in thinking and error in judgment. She is not just anyone, she is an Iraqi, speaking for them and their living conditions.
No, there's where you make a stupid diversionary argument. You made no point. You were merely swining wildly with whatever talking point came to your head. A talking point that had NOTHING to do with the OP.

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
You constantly move around your argument. First it was death. Now it's occupation.

Actually I have made my case pretty clear that I followed the argument until you cut and run.
Whoa. You've even broken out another poor tactic with that statement. Congrats on digging that hole even deeper.

No hole here, just your bastardization of the argument so you can cut and run, as usual.

 

Craig234

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Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
You mean we shouldn't believe it because of who funds it? Funny, I feel the same way about MSM, namely Rupert Murdoch and his PNAC buddies.

Would you believe a global warming report funded by Dick Cheney? :laugh:

And no, you shouldn't believe it, because it was proven false. The real figure was around 151,000 deaths, not 650,000.

Pabster is wrong and publishing lies yet again.

First, the Lancet study was a well-intended study and the best at the time. It was not some attempt at propaganda as some are.

Second, when Pabster says the accurate figure is 151,000, one thing that's clear is that he's wrong, that 151,000 is TOO LOW a figure.

For just one example, some of the most dangerous regions were too dangerous for this study, and they used other figures which are known to be low, because they're in areas with a lot of unreported killings, and they rely only on those killings with official records - any reasonable commentator agrees they're low.

There are other reasons why the new study is too low, which can be read about in any of the reasonable commentaries on it - in contrast to Pabster's inaccurate post.

He tries to turn the well-intended Soros who spent money for society to get the best possible estimate at the time - even if it turns out to be imperfect, as it is - into a partisan and dishonest attack on Soros. You have Pabster as the champion and defender of evil, the killing of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis by the policy he supports, in contrast to someone who tries to make things better, Soros.
 

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Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: blackangst1
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: umbrella39
Just my personal opinion here but once that number went above 10,000 or so did it really matter if it was 150K or 650K? That is a lot of fucking dead people.

I agree. In a perfect world, the number would be 0.

So how many deaths are acceptable Pabster?

Doesnt his answer pretty much answer that question? Or are you trolling?

I didn't ask you. Since you decided to answer for him, I'll ask you as well as him. How many deaths are acceptable?

PC Surgeon answer Blackangst1 question....

Doesnt his answer pretty much answer that question? Or are you trolling?