{"id":1515,"date":"2004-10-28T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-world-is\/"},"modified":"2004-10-28T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T18:14:36","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-world-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-world-is\/","title":{"rendered":"it depends on what the meaning of &#8220;world&#8221; is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been beaten over the head by my president for months about how america&#8230; and the world&#8230; are safer<sup>1<\/sup> since we&#8217;ve invaded iraq.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=6647677\">100, 000 excess civilian Iraqi deaths since war &#8211; study<\/a> [reuters, october 28, 2004]<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than in the period before the war,&#8221; Les Roberts and his colleagues said in the report which compared Iraqi deaths during 14.6 months before the invasion and the 17.8 months after it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the study suggests that &#8220;safer&#8221; in iraq is definitely an open question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.net\/\">iraq body count<\/a> has between 14160 and 16289 at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>maybe iraq isn&#8217;t part of the world as defined by the bush administration?<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/09\/20040902-2.html\">President&#8217;s Remarks at the 2004 Republican National Convention<\/a> [september 2, 2004], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/09\/20040916-6.html\">President&#8217;s Remarks at Victory 2004 Rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota<\/a> [september 16, 2004], <a href=\"http:\/\/usinfo.state.gov\/mena\/Archive\/2004\/Jul\/12-597200.html\" class=\"broken_link\">U.S., World Safer Since September 11th, 2001, Bush Says<\/a> [july 12, 2004], and so many, many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been beaten over the head by my president for months about how america&#8230; and the world&#8230; are safer1 since we&#8217;ve invaded iraq. 100, 000 excess civilian Iraqi deaths since war &#8211; study [reuters, october 28, 2004] &#8220;The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}