Deaths in Iraq
Oliver Kamm has fun with a witty introduction to his Guardian article poking fun (I know it was some time ago, but this site hardly at the cutting-edge, wait to you see the timeliness of the rest of this article) at the poor predictive powers of various anti-war figures, ie Charles Kennedy, George Galloway, and Shirley Williams (a 1970s Labour then Liberal politician).It is not a vulgar tu quoque to point out that those who supported regime change in Iraq are far from exceptional in having some explaining to do.
Indeed, he could have gone on. There was the then Lib Dem MP Sue Doughty, who was the subject of Oliver's 10th blog post of all time and the first to carry the strapline, "Those Liberal Democratic Predictions". Her laughable, "rubbish", attempt at forecasting was to say:
"[Diplomacy] would be preferable to the huge loss of life for Iraqi civilians and our own servicemen and women that would be the inevitable result of war."
Unbelievable. Anyway the idiocies of the Liberal Democrats was not the point of this post, but to ask if anyone knows on which date the Iraq Body Count survey went from being an object of the pro-war Left's scorn as a politically biased survey which should be attacked with slurs about its getting 'inspiration' from people the Weekly Standard has exposed as fabricators of data (see Oliver's post) to being the definitive guide to Iraqi casualties as seen by its link from uber-Decent site, The Henry 'Scoop' Jackson Society. Any sighting of favourable links to it before the 29th October 2004?
posted by Matthew @ 3/16/2006 05:21:00 PM
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