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Entries from January 2009

How did US mass media perform in assessing the Bush Administration’s case for invading Iraq?

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

 
By 2006 alone, over 655,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have died in excess of normal death rates (Burnham et al. “Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey”, Lancet vol 368, Oct 2006). One of the initial reasons given for the invasion involved members of the Bush administration associating Iraq with […]

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