BUSH: Johns Hopkins "not credible". "Doesn't believe" 655K dead

[Bluebear]

NEW YORK - President Bush says he doesn't believe it. Some experts have a problem with it. But several others say it seems sound. Such was the varied reception for a controversial new study that estimated the Iraq war has led to the deaths of nearly 655,000 Iraqis as of July.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad derived that estimate from a door-to-door survey, conducted by doctors, of 1,849 households in Iraq. Taking the number of deaths reported by household residents, they extrapolated to a nationwide figure...

The new study — which attributes roughly 600,000 of the deaths directly to violence and 55,000 more to other war-related causes — was released Wednesday on the Web site of The Lancet, a respected medical journal. But just how good is its conclusions?

"I don't consider it a credible report," President Bush said Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq...

[undeterred]

1. begs for a monkey photo...

[niyad]

2. did his face freeze like that???

[silverweb]

3. georgie is not a credible human being.

n/t

[flakey_foont]

4. hmmm

this coming from "Mr. Credibility" himself????

[BattyDem]

5. Is it just me or is he starting to look like Ivan Ooze?

[malaise]

6. Who gives a flying fugg what he thinks

He has zero credibility. Which rational human being will take his C grade words over scientific studies from internationally renowned universities. Fugg that war criminal.
Sp.

[NewJeffCT]

7. John Hopkins, MIT...

You know, a bunch of radical, tree hugging, Commie-loving pinko, lazy-good-for-nothing, latte-sipping, birkenstock wearing, feminazi, dope smoking, librul elitists.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. He's a creationist.

He believes whatever he wants.

[Bluebear]

12. And He is The Decider.

[bdamomma]

9. nothing like being in denial of the consequences of his actions

oh, what a picture I would love to slap his face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[keta11]

10. Seriously, I never thought a President of the USA could

be this dumb!!

[lvx35]

11. How much can it deviate based on the size of their sample?

I mean, Unless there's a major flaw with the sample its somewhere between 300,000 and a million. Either deviation is still a huge amount of people.

[Bake]

13. And Smirk IS credible????

I'm incredulous! I guess Johns Hopkins med center wouldn't be credible either, in the even that Smirk needed some kind of procedure/treatment that only they could offer ... not that I'm wishing for that to happen, I'm just sayin' ...

Bake

[Bluebear]

15. Great followup question: "OK, Mr. Bush, how many ARE dead?"

"Um, uh, mm, uh, mmm..."

[Bluebear]

31. .

[rhiannon55]

14. "I'm the Decider and I decide what's credible and what's not!

So there! Nya Nya Nya Nya Nya!"

[bluerum]

16. But what if? What if it were accurate? Is that not enough to make one stop

and consider?

What if the numbers were 50% high - "only" 325,000 dead? Is that not a mind numbing thing to comprehend?

What if there were some way you could see you your way to at least acknowledging thousands upon thousands of losses instead of simply calling them "not credible."

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. Why would he? He's in denial about everything else, so

why not this?

[DRoseDARs]

18. I want Yale and Harvard to do a similar study; see what he says then...

...given he's a graduate of both.

[The Blue Flower]

19. He used a really big word

He said the "methodology was flawed." I was really hoping someone would ask President Unsophisticated Vocabulary what part of the methodology he disagreed with.

[brook]

20. "Sorry. It's not credible".

Johns Hopkins ER doctor to * complaining of chest pains.

[lapfog_1]

21. Separated at birth ( and, yes, they are both puppets)

[USA_1]

22. Johns Hopkins U is a CONSERVATIVE School

Why is it that liberal schools don't publish this type of research??????

[cedahlia]

23. Apparently, unless Fox News is the source...

Then the source is not credible!

Anyway, I'd be surprised if Lord Pissypants even knows the meaning of the word "credible." Probably thinks it has something to do with a big, scary green man.

[Solly Mack]

24. Bush wants to start a fire then blame the smoke for any deaths

The "logic" is -

If the people in the fire didn't burn to death, then the people didn't die by fire.

[semillama]

25. Well, it fits in with woodward's book

"State of Denial"

[librechik]

26. If Shrub ever gets seriously ill, I hope they rush him to John Hopkins

for a cure.

Just sayin

[kestrel91316]

27. I hope Johns Hopkins has a contingency plan in place for

funding WHEN THEY LOSE ALL THEIR FEDERAL FUNDING.

'Cause I guarantee you they will be made to pay for this.

[unpossibles]

28. because that means he killed more than Saddam

go figure.

[Horse with no Name]

29. And yet

Johns Hopkins using the same methodology in research studies for medical research is credible.

[gollygee]

30. "Nah nah nah nah nah I can't hear you"

ignoring it doesn't make it any less so.