LANCET PUBLISHES NEW WAR STUDY

The left embraced and promoted the Lancet Iraq study purporting to show a massive death toll directly attributable to the coalition invasion. The results of a new study by the International Rescue Committee make the US's death-dealing efforts in Iraq look downright puny:

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been the most deadly since the second world war, a new study estimates, with nearly 4 million people having died as a result of the widespread violence and instability.

It is the worst humanitarian crisis in the past 60 years, says Richard Brennan, the IRC’s health director. “In terms of absolute numbers,” he says, “there’s nothing that comes close.”

Since the US isn't a major player in the Congo I'm betting the left will pretty much ignore these horrific figures.

Update: Update: Lancet obsessed – 71 posts – academic Tim Lambert ignores the New Scientist article on the IRC Lancet-published study (linked above) in favour of a New Scientist article on another topic dear to him, sock puppets – to access, copy and paste http://timlambert.org/2006/01/newscientistsocks/ . The man has his priorities sorted.

Update II: It is pointed out in comments that this is not a new study: it is an old study with newly revised figures.