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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 08:39 AM
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Bush's puppets say between 151,000 and 223,000 Iraqis have been killed since U.S.-led invasion
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09576617.htm

09 Jan 2008 22:00:02 GMT
Source: Reuters


By Laura MacInnis

GENEVA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of their country, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) research published on Wednesday.

The new study, which said violent deaths could have ranged from 104,000 to 223,000 between March 2003 and June 2006, is the most comprehensive since the war started.

The study drew on an Iraqi health ministry survey of nearly 10,000 households -- five times the number of those interviewed in a disputed 2006 John Hopkins University study that said more than 600,000 Iraqis had died over the period.

While well below that figure, the United Nations agency's estimate exceeds the widely-cited 80,000 to 87,000 death toll by the human rights group Iraq Body Count, which uses media reports and hospital and morgue records to calculate its tally.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 08:44 AM
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1. * has killed more Iraqis than Saddam.
I heard the count was 225,000 could we say this is considered ethic cleansing???? Shameful, and that man is in the Middle East talking about peace sure he is :sarcasm: and has 10,000 security people or troops even the Israeli army protecting his a$$ what a coward he is.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 08:49 AM
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2. Didn't The Lancet put it closer to a million?
And that was some time ago.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 08:54 AM
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3. This is coming from Bush's puppets hiding in the Green Zone who are trying to minimize the slaughter
Edited on Thu Jan-10-08 08:55 AM by NNN0LHI
Bet it is a lot more. Wonder how many young innocent Iraqi draftees were turned into pink mist during the first hours of Shock And Awe while asleep in their barracks?

I don't know how the people who dropped that ordinance can sleep at night.

Don

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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 09:16 AM
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5. Or how many civilians in their homes.
Baghdad was not a military installation. In 2002 it was a major city of 5,605,000 (urban area 6,508,200) Shock & Awe itself was a War Crime.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-10-08 08:57 AM
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4. Not including the half million children/elderly who died in the 90s via sanctions
"Liberated!" ... from earthly existence.
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