[Marxism] Do Facts Make a Difference in Building an Anti-War Movement?

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Zeller of the New York Times reports:

A recent poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the
University of Maryland appears to support that view [that the
Americans have received a sanitized vision of the Iraq war]. Asked to
estimate the number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war in March and
April of last year, 41 percent of respondents guessed below 500.
Nearly 75 percent said 2,000 or below. No official toll exists, but
even the lowest estimates put the number of Iraqi civilian deaths in
the month after "major combat" began at more than 3,000. Last June,
The Associated Press guessed that 3,240 Iraqi civilians died in March
and April of last year. Iraq Body Count, an independent group
tracking reports of civilian casualties, puts the number at more than
7,000. ("All News Is Local, Too," May 9, 2004)

Looking at the PIPA's own report, we also learn that "[o]nly 16% of
the sample gave estimates of 3,000 to 7,000 -- the range of
fatalities that corresponds with researchers' estimates" -- the
median response was 800 ("US Public Beliefs on Iraq and the
Presidential Election," April 22, 2004).

The rest of the posting is at
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_montages_archive.html#108413569300812678>.
--
Yoshie

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