Giant mistakes on CounterPunch AND CommonDreams AND TruthOut AND ZNet RE: Iraq war death toll, Lancet and IBC

Dear Bill Quigley,

Thanks for your article “War Immemorial Day” published on CounterPunch on 26 may 2008. You write:

2003 to present Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom. 4082 U.S. military killed. British medical journal Lancet estimates over 90,000 civilian deaths. Iraq Body Count estimates over 84,000 civilians killed.

I’d like to bring to your attention two grave errors and kindly ask you to correct them.

The first, giant mistake is that the 2006 Lancet study estimated more than 650,000 deaths as a result of the US illegal war of aggression of Iraq. That was two years ago. [Then there was a ORB poll that estimated more than a million deaths.]

The second mistake is that the IBC figures are NOT estimates but a simple count based mostly on Western media reports.

Please, will you issue a correction as soon as possible and ask CounterPunch to publish it. Here below you find more info on this important matter.

Thank you for your time.

Best wishes,
Gabriele Zamparini
London
http://thecatsdream.com