"Iraqis are dying like fish in a poisoned lake."

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/e237ecdde921e7849fc14a9ac7cc7986.htm

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Dying like fish

"Iraqis are dying like fish in a poisoned lake. They are insignificant lives and the numbers of the research just proves that. The Iraqi government wants to hide the reality but it is not necessary because it is very clear now, just proving what we already suspected before," said Muhammad Jaboury, a gold seller at Mansour district in the capital, Baghdad.

The United Nations has expressed surprise at the findings, which are far higher than its own, but has neither discredited or confirmed them yet.

"I was myself really surprised over this very high figure, and I do not know their methodology and how they've reached this," Jan Egeland, the UN's humanitarian chief, was quoted as saying to the Associated Press on Thursday.

"It is clear that 100 people die from blunt violence every day , probably more than any other place on earth today. How many die beyond that from associated causes is what we do not (know)... and we don't know whether they give the right figure or not."

Egeland went on to say that he was aware of "many, many cases where there is underreporting" of casualties, which could explain the vast difference between the Lancet study and other reports that put the number of deaths in the tens of thousands.

[babylonsister]

1. Damn the blivet for starting this, damn him to a thousand hells! nt

[Nolo_Contendre]

2. What is Bush/Cheney's most remarkable achievement in Iraq?

They make Saddam Hussein look like a good leader.

[Double T]

3. Numbers that would make Hitler proud...........

The fact that 'WE' sowed the seeds of this heinous, horrible, abusive, unthinkable destruction of the Iraqi people and their country makes the USA a villain in the eyes of most of the world. It is time to do something, vote the neocon congress out and neutralize bushco for their remaining term.

[whistle]

4. KKKarl Rove to Dubya, "655,000 dead so far, 23.0 million to go"

[gordianot]

5. Wait for "Limited Nuclear War" it should be a snap.

655,000 not bad for conventional munitions. :sarcasm:

[shance]

6. What many fail to realize is this is how the Administration views everyone

Everyone to them is expendable, recyclable, and disposable.

Everyone except themselves.

The poor people of Iraq were simply trial and error to the monsters who created the killing zone there.