Shocker: Soros Death Report Was Totally Bogus

This news was already noted last week, but now some media outlets have picked it up. I highly doubt any of the networks who touted this will go back and correct their errors, but at least the information is trickling out.

Needless to say, this evil man should be shunned, but Democrats are all to eager to do his bidding and it's unlikely any of them will denounce their benefactor.

$OROS' IRAQ DEATH STUDY WAS A SHAM

January 10, 2008 -- Anti-Bush billionaire George Soros helped finance a dubious study of Iraqi casualties that was rushed into print on the eve of the 2006 elections, according to a new report.

Soros, who gave more than $20 million to prevent President Bush's re-election, contributed $45,000 of the $145,000 that was spent on the study, the National Journal disclosed.

The study, which The Lancet, a British medical journal, published three weeks before the midterm elections, made major headlines around the world with claims that some 650,000 Iraqis died in the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and the ensuing chaos.

Two of the study's co-authors told the National Journal that they opposed the war and submitted their findings to Lancet with the insistence that it appear before the election.

Much of the data for the study, which was organized by Johns Hopkins University, was collected by Iraqi researcher Riyadh Lafta, who once worked for Saddam, the National Journal said.

Soros, who has an estimated fortune of more than $8 billion, has backed various left-wing and anti-Bush groups, such as MoveOn.org. A Soros spokesman did not return a request for comment.

The 650,000 figure was regarded with skepticism when the study appeared because it was vastly higher than estimates by the US government (30,000) and the Iraqi government (50,000).

Even an antiwar activist group, Iraq Body Count, claimed 45,000 dead, a fraction of the Lancet figure.

Many anti-war activists received the Lancet numbers with glee, and touted it as an example of US lying.

Reacting with glee to purported news of 655,000 dead people.

A bit ghoulish, no?

Of course, this news is greeted with total silence by the left.

The never have to apologize. They simply MoveOn to their next fabrication.