Iraq Death Toll ‘Above Highest Estimates’

[LynnTheDem]

BAQUBA - The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say.

A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000.

Just Foreign Policy, an independent organisation “dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy” offered an updated total of 1,213,716 at the time of this writing.

On Sep. 14, 2007, Opinion Research Business (ORB), an independent polling agency located in London, produced a figure of 1,220,580 deaths as a result of the invasion.

Other officials also offered bleak assessments.

New burial grounds are found often, and the dead are usually not recorded.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42618

So George, do you want to remind the people of Iraq about their "debt of gratitude" they owe you?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I have been suspecting this for a long time.

I can't express how much I hate the fact that we began this war and continue to wage it, despite having elected a Democratic Congress two years ago. I saw Vietnam up close and dirty. Then I came home and joined the peace movement. This time, when there was talk of war, the sights, sounds and smells of Vietnam came rushing back to me and I got into peace activism before the first bomb fell. I know a lot of vets who followed the same path I did.

Now we're off destroying another beautiful land and its people. Why can't this stupid country learn?

[bdamomma]

2. we need a good asskicking.

[electropop]

3. So the genocide is working and gas is $4.00 a gallon. Bush is not a failure.

He's accomplished exactly what they installed him to do.

Mission Accomplished®

[Hydra]

7. Bingo!

Keep spreading the word- Bushco hasn't failed at anything yet. It's simply that their aims are not ours.

[gratuitous]

4. We lose 3,000 out of 300 million in one horrific day

And our nation is so traumatized that we let the most pee-your-pants scared people decide for the rest of us how to conduct our affairs for the next six years. The Iraqi people lose 1.2 million out of 30 million over the course of an illegal invasion and four year occupation, and we expect them to be okay with it.

American arrogance and hubris is stunning, just stunning.

[LynnTheDem]

9. Whatever the word is beyond "stunning", that would be it.

I've thought exactly your post since 2002, and I still can't get over how arrogant and "ubermenschen" we are. The equivalent of a 911 attack daily on Iraq...and we shrug our collective shoulders.

God forbid we ever suffer a fraction of what we've dealt out to others around the world. 911 would be a "little mishap" in comparison.

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Nothing to worry about. I am perfectly safe." - Commander AWOL Bush

"That's right, Homelander proles, you can rest easy. I am safe and sound, planning another long, luxurious vactation at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford. I can assure you that absolutely none of my republicon homelander chickenhawk cronies will suffer as much as a hangnail. So you can sleep well tonight.

"Ooops, almost forgot my republicon homelander chickenhawk propaganda Talking Point: 'too bad about all the dead, mangled, and tortured human beings and stuff."

- Commander AWOL Bush

[mzmolly]

6. "Freedom isn't free"

/sarcasm

Freedom is death and destruction, at least according to some.

[lonestarnot]

8. George Bushitler and Dickwad Cheney are serial killers!

[seemslikeadream]

10. Is it genocide yet?