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Much more than 30,000 Iraqis civilians were killed by the invasion !

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 14 December 2005
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Much more than 30,000 Iraqis civilians were killed by the invasion !

Mr Bush has announced in a recent speech that about 30,000 Iraqis have been killed after the invasion of Iraq. This number is very little compared with the actual number of civilians killed in Iraq. The reasons are:-

1- The USA troops kill from the Iraqis and do not bother to keep an account of their killing. General Tomy Franks was quoted to say: "We do not do body count".
2- In the first few months after the invasion of Iraq there were no real government in Iraq, due to massive bombing which has devastated the infrastructure of many Iraqi establishments. Health offices were not in a position to give accurate statistics of the killed civilians.
3- The prevailing chaos in the first year after the invasion has forced Iraqis to simply bury their dead victims without reporting to hospitals or local authorities.
4- Those who were killed by USA troops in the resistance operations, were usually buried by their relatives with no reports to hospitals. The relatives are usually too terrified to report the death, so that the USA troops will not follow their families and imprison their relatives. In the first few months of 2005, Baghdad hospitals used to bury 260 unidentified dead person per month.
5- Civilians at small towns and villages, that are killed by American air raids are usually buried without being reported to hospitals.

Therefore, the 30,000 deads may represent those who were killed in the main incidents only and at large towns in Iraq but not all the civilian victims of the invasion. In a report by "Unknown NEWS" 30,000 members of the Iraqi army were killed, and 90,000 were injured in the first few weeks of the invasion. The study published by the LANCET JOURNAL estimated a 100,000 more deaths caused by the intervention in IRAQ and during the first 18 months after March 2003. In light of the above, Mr Bush is only trying to reduce the extent of the war crimes caused by his arrogant policies in Iraq.
Mohamed Younis
Mosul / IRAQ

Forum posts

  • I couldn’t agree more here I include a comment I made on another site which discussed the Death Penalty and Stanley Williams which was big news in North American and found its way on to the BBC:

    But how are we to understand the murder of one man or of many; as errors or tragedies ?
    Is it ironic that the day Stanley Williams was killed for killing four people George Bush said 30,000 Iraqis had been killed!!

    George please ask Colin Powell or Tony Blair how Mr. Roberts screwed up so badly in Iraq ( est 100,000 deaths) while being so precise in the Congo?

    October(2004) a study..The Lancet..about 100,000 civilians..killed in Iraq since U.S.-led coalition in March 2003.

    Mr. Roberts..survey in Congo..in which he used methods akin to those of his Iraq study."Tony Blair and Colin Powell have quoted those results time and time again without any question as to the precision or validity".

    cheers, jt

  • It was no accident that US airforce destroyed all the records of Iraqi citizens. 30.000 is a very low figure. There are at least half a million now.