Shocking Tally of Iraq Civilian Causalities

[Occhidiangela]

No I don't mistrust anybody just because he or she belongs to a certain group. I'm just saying that in this discussion there are people that have certain reasons to bend the facts to what is better for them. So I'm not accusing you of being biased, lying or something else. I'm just pointing out that in the topic of "saying different numbers for a death count" somebody must be "not speaking the truth". And I can not, just because you are a fellow lurker, 100 % go with your story.

Remember earlier discussions about the reason to go to war to Iraq etc. My healthy mistrust of "people in power" actually turned out to give me an opinion that now turns out to be very close to truth. But don't worry that is just believe everything that is "in my street" I try to stay critical all the time.

So try to look at it from my perspective; why would you (if you were me) believe somebody like you more than for example the writer of the article.
At the same time I can also fully understand that you will not always take for granted what I say.

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Understood. You are still uncomfortable with my less than liberal leanings in general. Got it.

What does that have to do with my professional experience ON THIS PARTICULAR TOPIC. There are a lot of things about this war, political and technical, where I am no better informed than you vis a vis facts, and so our background opinions will shape our impressions of what we can learn. On this specific topic, I have technical knowledge that I draw on to inform my judgment, and thus my concerns on the study's merits.

Occhi