Here's a pic of 110,000 people. Six of these matches the # of Iraqi civilian deaths ...

[Bozita]

... according to the Lancet study.

[Ezlivin]

1. Remember: Only American deaths truly count

The Pentagon doesn't have time to do "body counts" any more. Out of sight, out of mind as they say.

[zreosumgame]

26. bot of those the only REAL ones are the ones used for photo-ops

with grieving family still 'believeing' in dumbaya's big adventure

[FedUpWithIt All]

2. ...

:banghead:

[Richard D]

3. I hope you don't mind

[Bozita]

Thanks. It's a real mindblower when viewed that way.

[Uncle Joe]

15. In a nation with a population less than one tenth of our own for the full impact. n/t

[Bozita]

16. Ten million less than the population of California

California QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau
People QuickFacts, California, USA. Population definition and source info, Population, 2005 estimate, 36132147, 296410404 ...
quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06000.html - 49k - Cached - Similar pages

[partylessinOhio]

4. All of them killed by *. All them killed by an invasion based on * lies.

[undeterred]

14. Oh, but he believes murder is wrong.

That's why he voted against stem cell research. :shrug:

[skipos]

5. It is the equivalent of killing every person here:

[tridim]

6. At least now those dead Iraqis can't attack us at home

:sarcasm:

There's your legacy, asshole.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Men, women and children.

Then there's the American troops whose minds have been blown by it all.

It also annoys me that the grievously wounded, physically - quite apart from mentally - are so often left unmentioned when the current total of dead servicemen and service women is mentioned. An amputation, in some cases, multiple amputations, must be a kind of death to most healthy young men and women.

[Kerrytravelers]

8. The visual is just staggering.

But I'd place money on the fact that if this picture were shown to the war mongers in this country, they'd be more interested in the football game than the lives lost.

[Ian_rd]

25. True on many levels - the value of life for them depends on what "team" the victims are on

When talking to rightwingers about Iraq, I always lead with the number of American soldiers who have died eventhough it pales in comparison to the Iraqi death toll because I've learned that talking about Iraqi deaths to a Bushite gets little more than a smirk with rolling eyes and a sarcastic "boo-hoo" type comment.

[stop the bleeding]

9. All of them killed with our money

I think I am going cry/puke/rage :argh:

[mondo obscurius]

10. All that blood is on our hands

What are we going to do about it?

[Javaman]

21. The question is; not what are we going to do about it...

but what is the rest of the world going to do about it?

[newyawker99]

23. Hi mondo obscurius!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[mondo obscurius]

24. why thankya!

That's mighty nice.
:toast:

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. That's a lot of mass graves

in just 3.5 years.

[Canuckistanian]

12. That's equivalent to the entire population of Montenegro

[TahitiNut]

13. It's about the same as a 9/11 every weekday for a year.

That's how I think of it. A whole year of 9/11's. :cry:

[Ian_rd]

27. That's by far the most powerful analogy I've heard, and I think we should all use it.

We've given the innocent of Iraq their very own 9-11 over two-hundred times, and for what? So we can produce more terrorists?

[hootinholler]

17. Which is 2.5% of the 2002 estimated population...

That would be like 7.5 Million killed in the U.S.

-Hoot

[Imagevision]

18. George would remind you he's doing it to protect YOU - insanity is a helluva place

to be, ---> all the time!!

[Mabus]

19. The first thing that popped in my mind

are stadiums being used for executions by the Taliban in Afghanistan

http://www.rawa.org/murder-w.htm

[Donald Ian Rankin]

20. Two notes on this.

Firstly, the figure of 600,000 deaths claimed by the Lancet study is for the difference between the number of people who've died in Iraq since the invasion and their prediction of what that number would have been had it not been for the invasion - the total number of Iraqi civilian deaths since 2001 is obviously far higher than that.

Secondly, while the Lancet is a very reputable publication and there were no flaws in the methodology of its study obvious to me, it's probably worth noting that the figure it claims is by far the highest of those put forward, and other reputable studies have produced totals which, while high, are a lot lower than 600,000.

[leftchick]

22. all killed by the "pro-life" prez

:puke: