By the end of 2007: 1 MILLION IRAQI DEATHS. That's equivalent to Nuking NYC in the U.S.

[berni_mccoy]

The latest Pentagon report shows that over 100 Iraqi's are dying a day now (as of Q4 2006). If you take the John's Hopkins / MIT estimates of currently 600,000 deaths due to the War and you project out the current death rate, you will have 1 million Iraqi deaths by the end of 2007. The population estimates for Iraq before the war were about 27 million people. That means we'll have killed nearly 4% of their population (and another 4% have fled the country).

4% in the U.S. is about 12 million people. That's more than the population of NYC.

[NYCGirl]

1. NYC is 8 million people, but I get your point. NT

[berni_mccoy]

2. Urban popluation is 17 million when you include surrounding areas

Somewhere in between...

[mmonk]

3. No telling how many

by the time we leave. What's it going to be like in 5 to 10 more years?

[Orrex]

4. I guess that we're exterminating them over there

So that we don't have to exterminate them here.


:puke:

[gravity]

5. Its more like 1000 American deaths

Everyone knows one American is the equivalent to 1000 Iraqis.

:sarcasm:

[IWantAChange]

6. thanks berni - keeping the #'s in proper perspective is oftentimes lost

[krispos42]

7. Ah, but non-white non-evangelicals don't count, remember?

That's why Bush and Cheney don't care about Democrats, New Orleans, or Iraqis.

[berni_mccoy]

8. Like I said, the equivalent of nuking NYC.

Whites in NYC only account for 37% of the population.