NY Times wouldn't publish my letter re. Iraq.

[Smarmie Doofus]

So I'm posting it here. It's from April of this year.


To the Editor:
Your editorial assailing Saddam Hussein for waging a "gruesome military campaign" against rebellious Kurds 18 years ago flatly asserts that 50,000 cilvilians were killed as a consequence. It is difficult to understand how you can cite so precise a figure,particularly when you have yet to report plainly the civilian cost of the ongoing intervention by the United States in Iraq, which intervention was supported editorially and reportorially by the New York Times.

Reliable international sources have estimated civilian deaths resulting from the Bush intervention to be two or three times the toll resulting from Saddam's campaign against the Kurds; if they are correct,you may need a word stronger than "gruesome" to describe what has lately happened to Iraqi civilians in a war that you advocated. If you differ with the international estimates,
your readership deserves to know why.

[Drum]

1. wish they'd printed it

thanks for posting here...it'll get around.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Human rights watch was estimating that 500,000 children died

as a result of the sanctions. Now, I have nothing against human rights watch, but numbers like that seem highly inflated by orders of magnitude. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that it ever happened now.