Soros SECRETLY funded report claiming 650,000 deaths in Iraq

[DougMD]

Lie, cheat, steal. The end justfies the means...

Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study



Brendan Montague
[/align][/align][/align]A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.
Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead.
The study, published in 2006, was hailed by antiwar campaigners as evidence of the scale of the disaster caused by the invasion, but Downing Street and President George Bush challenged its methodology.
New research published by The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 people - less than a quarter of The Lancet estimate - have died since the invasion in 2003.
"œThe authors should have disclosed the [Soros] donation and for many people that would have been a disqualifying factor in terms of publishing the research,"� said Michael Spagat, economics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The Lancet study was commissioned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and led by Les Roberts, an associate professor and epidemiologist at Columbia University. He reportedly opposed the war from the outset.
His team surveyed 1,849 homes at 47 sites across Iraq, asking people about births, deaths and migration in their households.
Professor John Tirman of MIT said this weekend that $46,000 (£23,000) of the approximate £50,000 cost of the study had come from Soros"™s Open Society Institute.
Roberts said this weekend: "œIn retrospect, it was probably unwise to have taken money that could have looked like it would result in a political slant. I am adamant this could not have affected the outcome of the research."�
The Lancet did not break any rules by failing to disclose Soros"™s sponsorship.
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[Aught Six]

His propaganda machine would make Stalin jealous.

[ipscshooter]

Soros is old. With any luck, he'll stop participating in the political process sooner rather than later... of natural causes...

[Fieldmouse]

Why does this not suprise me? A Dem, who is backing countless political 527 attack groups, putting forth false numbers. I find thathard to believe. I seem to remember a thread a few months back claiming his numbers were true if not under reported. However, when I pointed to the factual information available as well as the statistics of that number could never be right,I waswrong. I believe even the 150k number is still inflated by almost double.

[Champlain Islander]

I believe even the 150k number is still inflated by almost double.
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Kind of hard to believe that FM after seeing the heavy bombing and fire fights we did when we invaded. We kicked some serious azz. Honestly I don't really care how manyIraqi's havebeen killed. Ifwe killed them all that would be one way out of there. The only fact I care about is US and coalition deaths.

[BigTiny]

I have this theory that this guy is behind the successful fund-raising efforts of Ron Paul. The guy is polling under 4% and yet he gets a ton of money. It makes me think someone wants him to run independent in the general election and pull the old Ross Perot play that but Bubba in office. When I think of people with the means and motive, Soros is the only name on the list. I don't have any other conspiracy theories other than Hillary being in-dwelt by satan, but too many others think the same thing for it to be a really good conspiracy theory.