ACTION ALERT: Why is Antiwar.com hiding the Iraq Genocide?

ACTION ALERT: Why is Antiwar.com hiding the Iraq Genocide?

The best estimate indicates that more than a million Iraqis have been killed as a result of the illegal US-led invasion and occupation. The average American believed approximately 9,900 Iraqis had died as a result of the war according to a February 2007 AP poll. The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll.

Antiwar.com’s page Casualties in Iraq - The Human Cost of Occupation includes a big Iraq Body Count’s banner and other IBC references, however that page does NOT include:

• the studies conducted by the world leaders in the field of epidemiology and published as peer-reviewed scientific papers in the world's leading medical journal, the Lancet;

• the recently published ORB poll suggesting a total of 1,220,580 deaths as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (ie as a result of violence rather than a natural death such as old age).

In these past three years many people have written to Antiwar.com about this issue without receiving any reply.

A few days ago I had an e-mail exchange with the Antiwar.com’s staff. Please, I invite you to read this exchange, where you'll also find much more information on this very important issue. [Click here]

In spite of Antiwar.com’s abusive e-mails and their unwillingness to an open debate with its readers, from their e-mails it would seem that their position is that the Antiwar.com page "Casualties in Iraq - The Human Cost of Occupation" refers exclusively to Iraq Body Count and not to the Lancet studies and the ORB poll because, as they wrote me, Antiwar.com published the latter "WHEN THEY WERE NEWS":

Of course, we also ran the news about the Lancet/Johns-Hopkins studies of 2004 and 2006 WHEN THEY WERE NEWS in 2004 and 2006. [e-mail from ANTIWAR.COM'S Editorial Assistant Scott Horton]

Curiously, this seems to be one of the reasons used by the state-corporate media. For example, the BBC wrote me back in October 2005:

“Thanks for your email. We did cover this report in detail when it was released - see link below. The figures it details are now around one year old where as those produced by Iraq Body Count are continually updated.”

I have also received this e-mail from Dr. Gideon Polya [click here]

Please, write to Antiwar.com and ask them to update their page, Casualties in Iraq - The Human Cost of Occupation, with references to the Lancet Studies and to the new ORB poll.

The contact information for Antiwar.com’s staff is avalable on this page, right column.

PLEASE NOTE: It would seem the staff at Antiwar.com may get easily quite abusive, unfriendly and impolite. Please, always maintain a calm, rational and polite tone and don’t let their eventual rudeness divert you from the real issue at stake. If you want, please send a copy of your e-mail to me at: info@thecatsdream.com

UPDATE - ANTIWAR.COM CHANGED ITS PAGE "Casualties in Iraq - The Human Cost of Occupation"