It’s based on complete liberal-left politics-tainted stupidity. But that doesn’t matter to the liberals’ Vancouver Sun (Canwest Global).
Suddenly they don’t speak of Vancouver’s population being “2.2 million”, as is the common notion since the metropolitan area is what is normally used. No, in order to fit their story, suddenly it’s expedient to use the “600,000” figure, which is the population of the precise legal city limits of Vancouver itself—a figure that is never, ever used in common parlance.
They do this to manipulate the reader even more than their Michael Moore-like Iraq war-dead “statistic”, which is all the more hideous as you read the story and find out that they way the “researchers” came to that ridiculous figure was not to count bodies or death certificates, but to go around Iraq (who knows where, exactly) and door-knock on people’s homes and ask them if they know of anyone who has died. Every “yes—I know of 16!” answer was presumably counted as 16 deaths.
The method is laughed at by nearly everyone in authority.
The Vancouver Sun then puts the “statistic” of 654,965 on the front page, in astronomically huge type face, with a huge picture of a sobbing Iraqi occupying about two-thirds of the page, proving once again that the liberal media can’t be trusted because they are agenda-driven.
When you go to page A-13 to read the story (none of it is on the front page), and by the way I use the word “story” advisedly because it’s largely a fairy tale, you are confronted by a picture of President Bush like this (as if saying “oops!” or “it’s not my fault”, or “I can’t do anything about it”, or “I don’t care”):
Within the fairy tale story, they admit that the Bush administration and the Iraq government deem the fallacious account to be “not credible” and “far from reality”. I’m sure they harbored far choicer verbiage for the Michael Moore-like tripe.
Then the punchline in which the Sun admits thusly in their liberal-left obsessed Associated Press story:
Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.
Oh and:
An accurate count of Iraqi deaths has been difficult to obtain but one respected group puts its rough estimate at closer to 50,000. And at least one expert was skeptical of the new findings.
“[O]ne respected group”, hmm? I think there’s more than one. I think it’s more like “all respected groups”. And I wonder why the Sun didn’t use the figure of 50,000 instead.
Oh and:
“They’re almost certainly way too high,” said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington.
He criticized the way the estimate was derived and noted the results were released shortly before the Nov. 7 election. “This is not analysis, this is politics,” Cordesman said.
You don’t say.
Early in the Iraq war, the same or similar group of folks pushed through the very willing liberal anti-American media death figures they said were ten times higher than official estimates based on the same methodology, and the accounts were reviewed by many at the time and deemed to be just short of a bad political joke. Today, those accounts are used more often as internet jokes than actual estimates of the dead.
Yet the Vancouver Sun sees fit to put these figures on their front page, misleading readers (as I see it) with their agenda-driven liberal stupidity.
“Facts and objectivity be damned” seems to be the overriding liberal media’s mantra, followed closely by “be anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-conservative, anti-Christian, anti-life, anti-family, anti-war on terror…” —you know, liberal!
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