Wednesday, July 27, 2005
The Last Clinger-On Abandons Lancet
The “Lancet number” (For latecomers: that’s the supposed 98,000 civillian casualties in the Iraq War, according to the Lancet Medical Journal) has been a topic of some discussion on Dartblog. I think it is now worth noting that liberal columnist Molly Ivins has abandoned that number, calling her mistake “a horror.” Here is a peek at Ivins’ lonely table, and the humble pie which lay before her:
CROW EATEN HERE: This is a horror. In a column written June 28, I asserted that more Iraqis (civilians) had now been killed in this war than had been killed by Saddam Hussein over his 24-year rule. WRONG. Really, really wrong.But read the whole thing, because her apology is sincere and, I think, heartfelt.The only problem is figuring out by how large a factor I was wrong.
Posted on July 27, 2005 02:11 PM. Permalink 