ACTION ALERT: e-mail The Guardian's Readers Editor Siobhain Butterworth

ACTION ALERT: Please, e-mail The Guardian's Readers Editor Siobhain Butterworth and ask her to issue a formal correction about the issue below. It's extremely important to inform the public opinion on the real extent of the carnage caused by the Anglo-American illegal war of aggression against Iraq. When the Iraqi slaughtered because of this illegal war might well be over one million, millions of people are still being deceived by the pernicious collaboration between Iraq Body Count and the mainstream media. I strongly urge you to maintain a polite, non-aggressive and non-abusive tone. Please send a copy of your emails to me at info@thecatsdream.com

The Guardian's Readers' Editor email:

reader@guardian.co.uk

Siobhain.Butterworth@guardian.co.uk


This is the e-mail I sent:

Dear Siobhain Butterworth, Guardian Readers Editor

CC. James Sturcke
CC. George Monbiot
CC. Media Lens
CC. Les Roberts

In US House calls for Iraq pullout by spring, Guardian’s James Sturcke wrote:

"There have also been around 70,000 Iraqi civilian deaths as a result of the military action by the US and its allies, according to the Iraq Body Count website."

I have had an email exchange with James on this issue and you can read it below and/or on Media Lens’ website where I have posted our correspondence.

For your convenience, this is the link of all our correspondence, which included also an exchange with Guardian’s George Monbiot

Guardian’s Monbiot’s reply to my email was:

Thanks Gabriele. I mentioned the million figure in my last column. I agree that the Lancet study is much more credible than the IBC's work.

With best wishes, George

I ask you to formally issue a correction of this irresponsible and misleading error. We have two scientific studies published in the British peer reviewed medical journal the Lancet. The last of this study, published last year, tells us that the Iraqi deaths because of this war might be as many as 655,000. Probably many more by now, as you can read here

Please, give to this issue all the due and necessary time and priority. You’re now responsible for this grave deception made by the Guardian.

I look forward for your prompt reply on this matter.

Thank you

Respectfully,
Gabriele Zamparini,
London

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Further responses

A response from Baghdad

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