Peace Action at SF Federal Building: Pelosi Speak With Us! Pt 2

Toby is wearing the scarf.

In the interview I informed Tony that I had just read that deaths in Iraq had topped 1 million. The source I cited was incorrect:

This is the source I was thinking of:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/press.html

Just Foreign Policy (an independent and non-partisan mass membership organization dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy) related in a recent e-mail:

"We have crossed another tragic milestone in the war in Iraq. Our estimate of violent Iraqi deaths due to the U.S.-led invasion and occupation has crossed the one million mark.

We have been working hard getting the word out, since the Iraqi death toll should be central to the public debate over ending this war and preventing future ones. We have communicated with hundreds of journalists, spoken on local radio shows, and spread the word online. The counter is now posted on over 150 web sites.1 It has been cited by Democracy Now! and Inter Press Service and appeared in a news video and a hard-hitting editorial cartoon.2

However, despite our best efforts, none of the major U.S. news outlets have covered this story. That is sadly unsurprising, since the major U.S. media have consistently downplayed Iraqi deaths. They refuse to accept the findings of the scientific study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University last year, on which our estimate is based."

"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
-- Omar Khayyam