89,878 DEAD Iraqis, most of them INNOCENT. If they don't have a Right to Life, then, do you?

[patrice]

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

At least our Troops were allowed the Human Dignity to CHOOSE. Right or Wrong, the call was THEIRS. They were not robbed of their Right to that most Human of characteristics, CHOICE, not so for the Iraqi People.

[live love laugh]

1. That's wayyyyy lower than the reality. Though even that number is atrocious. nt

[patrice]

2. AND it doesn't include Orphans and Homeless Refugee Families!

I'm madder than Hell that MY Country has been so horribly degraded by these LIES. But, at least, the Truth is preferable to the hypocritical charade that is called The Pro-Life Movement.

[leftchick]

3. I believe it is much closer to 2 million

that site only counts reported deaths. In war the reported deaths tend to not reflect the true toll at all. Like Vietnam the truth will surface years later when Americans could really give a shit.


http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070918_the_media_ignore.php


1.2 Million Iraqis Have Been Murdered

Another aspect of reality that has no place in the corporate media’s painted window was highlighted last Friday with the release (September 14) of a new report by the British polling organisation, Opinion Research Business (ORB). ORB is no dissident, anti-war outfit; it is a respected polling company that has conducted studies for customers as mainstream as the BBC and the Conservative Party.

The latest poll revealed that 1.2 million Iraqi citizens “have been murdered” since the March 2003 US-UK invasion. (www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78)

In February, Les Roberts, co-author of the 2004 and 2006 Lancet reports, argued that Britain and America might by then have triggered in Iraq "an episode more deadly than the Rwandan genocide", in which 800,000 people were killed. (Roberts, 'Iraq's death toll is far worse than our leaders admit,' The Independent, February 14, 2007; http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2268067.ece)

The key importance of the new poll is that it provides strong evidence for this claim, and strong support for the findings of the 2006 Lancet study, which reported 655,000 deaths. Roberts sent this email in response to the ORB poll:

"The poll is 14 months later with deaths escalating over time. That alone accounts for most of the difference . There are confidence interval issues, there are reasons to assume the Lancet estimate is too low but the same motives for under-reporting should apply to ORB. Overall they seem very much to align. (e.g. both conclude that: most commonly violent deaths are from gunshot wounds , most deaths are outside of Baghdad , Diyala worse than Anbar....)."

[Doremus]

4. I remember it was over 100,000 within the first 6 months n/t