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"Not everybody agrees with this count" More "he said, she said" in action. I think it is possible to make a critique of the study's methodology, but no-one has so far. They have used the standard methodology for estimation in disaster zones, which was used for the Pakistan earthquake, the tsunami etc. Mr. Cordesman specialises in high-level strategic analysis and has no visible credentials to analyse death estimates...
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 10:16:10 AM EST
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I wish my machine would stop defaulting to HTML Format...

It's a lot easier to read in Auto Format, but I'll also take the opportunity to correct a couple of mistakes:

"Not everybody agrees with this count"

More "he said, she said" in action.

I think it is possible to make a [good] critique of the study's methodology, but no-one has so far. They [the researchers publishing in the Lancet] have used the standard methodology for estimation in disaster zones, which was used for the Pakistan earthquake, the tsunami etc. Mr. Cordesman specialises in high-level strategic analysis and has no visible credentials to analyse death estimates...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 10:19:51 AM EST
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It's that same old 'La la la I can't hear you' NeoCon approach to the harsh light of librul reality.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Oct 11th, 2006 at 10:21:08 AM EST
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