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Iraqis killed by USA toll ’over one million’

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 13 February 2008
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Iraq death toll ’over one million’

aljazeera :: 2008-02-01 ::

Over 1,000,000 Iraqis Killed as a Result of the Conflict Started by
the US-led Invasion of Iraq in 2003

More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict started by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a new survey by a UK polling group.

The report was followed by more violence on Thursday, with five people killed and eight injured in a bomb blast in the Kazimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

The survey, conducted by UK-based Opinion Research Business (ORB), found that 20 per cent of people in Iraq had experienced at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.

The survey consisted of face-to-face interviews with 2,414 adults.

The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people had died as a result of the war.

The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and September 2007, was 1.7 per cent, giving a range of deaths from 946,258 to 1.12 million people. The research covered 15 of Iraq’s 18 provinces.

Those missing from the survey included two of Iraq’s more dangerous regions, Kerbala and Anbar, and the northern province of Arbil, where local authorities refused the group a permit to work.

Tallys of civilians killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion have been controversial in the past.

The Iraq Body Count website estimates the number is under one million, but upwards of between 80,699 and 88,126 people, although US authorities have questioned the site’s methodology and figures.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9AFAB89C-4313-4861-B592-FEFD4328F1DD.htm

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  • The US military death toll is considerably higher than the Pentagon is admitting as well. Washington hasn’t told the truth since 2000.

    If you’re injured and medivaced out of the theater and die elsewhere - you’re not counted. You simply don’t exist.

    When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

    • 4.207 has it right.
      Please go to the following link:

      http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2774.htm#001

      There you will find a highly informative article by Brian Harring, who has been tabulating the Pentagon’s own published casualty figures, and to no surprise to any one, their official numbers are WAY OFF.

      Here is an excerpt:

      "This original listing showed that as of mid-2005, the death count in both Iraq and Afghanistan topped 10,000 with 20,000 seriously wounded. By 2007, the death toll has risen to over 15,000 (and rising daily) with officially reported serious woundings (required out of theater hospitalization) at 50,508 as per a report published in the New York Times of January 30, 2007. In addition there have been, to date, 27,046 military victims of accidents and illness serious enough to require medical evacuation ,through June 30, 2007. The officially reported deaths does not include 116 suicides".

      That’s right, folks: as of last year the US death toll in both wars of occupation reached over 15,000 and not the near 4,000 that our Ministry of Truth keeps telling us.

      Even the anti-war movement seems to be clueless about this issue.
      I wonder if anyone out there has the guts to question McCain or Hillary about the real number of deaths our military has suffered.

      I am also wondering if there is anyone in the Pentagon with any real sense of civic duty, any real sense of patriotism, any real pair of cojones, otherwise this wouldn’t be news to most of us.

      The only thing worse than going to war based on a multitude of lies is to lie about the number of dead your own country has suffered.

      Americans, we need to wake up and we need to wake up NOW.