Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Iraq Casualty Statistics From The Nation Do Not Add Up

Photo from Photos from the War in Iraq by David Leeson

Iraq's Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans -- Alert Net/The Nation

We are now able to estimate the number of Iraqis who have died in the war instigated by the Bush administration. Looking at the empirical evidence of Bush's war legacy will put his claims of victory in perspective. Of course, even by his standards -- "stability" -- the jury is out. Most independent analysts would say it's too soon to judge the political outcome. Nearly six years after the invasion, the country remains riven by sectarian politics and major unresolved issues, like the status of Kirkuk.

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My Comment: Hmmmm .... 1 million dead, but 2 million widows???? .... and then the whopper of 5 million orphans.

This tells me that most Iraqi men must have multiple wives to have such a high widow statistic, and that they must also produce kids by the bucket.

These stats and figures from The Nation do not even come close to adding up.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2009 at 12:52 AM

    The figures on dead Iraqi civilians 670,000 in the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Study, and 1.2 million in two later surveys by Opinion Business Research, have detailed assumptions and computations. Try looking at those and coming up with a refutation instead of your unpersuasive dismissal.
    http://tinyurl.com/y2jx64
    http://tinyurl.com/dk68w9

    These deaths were due to civil strive unleashed by the Bush-Cheney invasion, not directly from U.S. forces.

    Both studies were replicated and validated. You obviously can't deal with the truth.

    The five million orphans estimate came from an Iraq government study. http://tinyurl.com/28n3px
    That's a separate source and has nothing to do with the 1.2 million dead.

    You combined the two and tried to dismiss the survey evidence by ridiculing the Iraq government estimate.

    These 1.2 million would not have died were it not for the war based on lies. Those are the facts. Deal with them instead of debating assumptions that you don't even examine.

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