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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNational Geographic - Half-Million Iraqis Died in the War, Study Says
Published October 15, 2013
Snip> The survey responses point to around 405,000 deaths attributable to the war and occupation in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. At least another 56,000 deaths should be added to that total from households forced to flee Iraq, the study authors estimate. More than 60 percent of the excess deaths of men, women, and children reported from 2003 to 2011 were the direct result of shootings, bombings, airstrikes, or other violence, according to the study. The rest came indirectly, from stress-related heart attacks or ruined sanitation and hospitals.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131015-iraq-war-deaths-survey-2013/?rptregcta=reg_free_np&rptregcampaign=20131016_rw_membership_r1p_us_se_w#
leftstreet
(36,106 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Many reputable organizations believe the number to be half a million as well. Probably another 100,000 during Papa Bush's war too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq
I'd say both Dems and Repubs perpetrated a horrible crime against Iraq.
Cha
(297,144 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)It must not be forgotten.
babylonsister
(171,056 posts)FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AUGUST 7, 2007
10:48 AM
CONTACT: Just Foreign Policy
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Group's Estimate of Iraqi Deaths to Cross One Million
NEW YORK - AUGUST 7 - For the past month, the non-profit group JustForeignPolicy.org has provided an ongoing estimate of the number of violent Iraqi deaths attributable to the 2003 invasion. Sometime within the next week, their tally is expected to cross one million Iraqi deaths. (The group will issue a press release when this occurs.)
JustForeignPolicy.org's estimate is a rough update of a scientific study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University last year, which concluded that 601,000 violent Iraqi deaths were attributable to the invasion as of July 2006. That study, published in The Lancet, relied on a cross-sectional cluster survey, the method used to estimate deaths around the world following natural and manmade disasters. For example, the standard press estimate of 200,000 deaths in Darfur comes from cluster samples conducted by the United Nations and a researcher at Northwestern University.
In the absence of a follow-up cluster survey, this careful extrapolation represents a best estimate of the growing Iraqi death toll.
JustForeignPolicy.org has made available the estimate available through a frequently updated Web counter, which is viewable here:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
To produce the estimate, JustForeignPolicy.org obtains a rate of how quickly deaths are mounting in Iraq from the public database maintained by Iraq Body Count (IBC). IBC records all violent Iraqi civilian deaths reported in at least two English-language press outlets. That rate is then applied to the more comprehensive estimate of Iraqi deaths provided by the Lancet study.
A detailed explanation of the methodology behind the estimate is available here:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/counterexplanation.html
JustForeignPolicy.org is an independent and non-partisan membership organization founded in 2006. Our founding board members includes Jeff Faux, Founding President of the Economic Policy Institute; Vicente Navarro, Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, and Policy Studies at Health Policy and Management and International Health at Johns Hopkins University; Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP; and former Congressman Tom Andrews. More information is available on our web site: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)the gift that keeps on keeping on killing people for years to come.
packman
(16,296 posts)John Bolton, god I can't stand him, yells at a Fox (?) interviewer, "Where's your source?" "It's a big lie" when questioned about the untold number of deaths in Iraq.
Skip to 3:12 for the Bolton/interviewer shouting match about the killing
Thanks to Alex P Notkeaton for video post
madokie
(51,076 posts)Little man syndrome no doubt
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I'm sure the BushCo. War Criminals would think that they were all expendable for the end goal...
Oil.
japple
(9,821 posts)care about anything involving human life then, and they don't care about it now. American or Iraqi lives.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)moondust
(19,972 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Thanks to Bush, Inc.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)ours, a million of the enemy's some oil-rich country's... It all comes out in the wash. USA USA!
indepat
(20,899 posts)cadre of war-criminal henchmen and hench-lady?