Scientists estimate 100,000 Iraqis may have died in war

AP ^ | 10/28/4 | EMMA ROSS

[SmithL]

LONDON -- A survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months after the U.S. invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.

There is no official figure for the number of Iraqis killed since the conflict began, but some non-governmental estimates range from 10,000 to 30,000. As of Wednesday, 1,081 U.S. servicemen had been killed, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

The scientists who wrote the report concede that the data they based their projections on were of "limited precision,"

[SmithL]

They admit that they made these numbers up, but AP considers this to be "Breaking News."

Go Figure.

[Anti-Bubba182]

What a load of crap!

[John Will]

Let me guess, "Social Scientists".

[Trippin]

Stupid jouralism to say the least.

[madvlad]

Limited precision and limited intellect.

MV

[Question Liberal Authority]

A survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months after the U.S. invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.

Well sure. Before the war, nobody died. They just disappeared.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The scientists who wrote the report concede that the data they based their projections on were of "limited precision,"

In other words, they pulled the number from their arse.

[nuconvert]

"based on the death rate before the war"

? You mean when Saddam was killing them? What kind of crap is this?

[Piquaboy]

Hey! They could have said that there had been 1,000,000 deaths.

[ASA Vet]

Still far less than should have happened on 9/12/01.

[End Times Sentinel]

The highest number I'd seen was from the lunatic commies at Human Rights Watch, and that was 10,000.  They arrived at that number citing wide spread use of fragmentation bombs over densely populated civilian areas.

What a frickin' joke.

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[GOP_1900AD]

Where are the bodies and / or graves? Death records? Etc. It is not as if Iraq is, or has been, oh, pretty much for the past few thousand years, an illiterate, undocumented jungle area. Very definitive numbers with relatively low degrees of error should be obtainable for any deaths besides those in Saddam's death camps and torture facilities.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Y'know, this is another charge of the Left that can be answered with: "So what?".

[cripplecreek]

I wonder how many Iraqi soldiers we exterminated.

[1rudeboy]

AP is simply trying to fire up its base.

[thegreatbeast]

I remember seeing an armored vehicle soldier recalling the taking of Baghdad. He said they killed thousands, literally thousands. He was almost overcome by the experience. That is just one approach to the city.

[rang1995]

better them then me

[Dallas59]

Ahhhh....the shining Sea Of Thisusdedtobethemiddleeast!

Lovely!

[cvq3842]

Even assuming they are correct, how far ahead is the 100,000 figure from the execuitions, starvation and torture victims said to have been killed by Saddam?

Didn't people complain that the sanctions were starving thousands of children a month?

Hey, maybe 100,000 in 18 months is an improvement!

I'm not trying to be flippant, or devaluing human lives, but sometimes even by its own terms this kind of crap can be quickly dismissed.

Remember - Amnesty International went soft on Saddam's Iraq.

[wizardoz]

Mm-hmm. And where did they get the numbers of the death rate before the war? From Saddam's Ministry of Information? You know, this is just exactly the kind of "survey" that lead to the constant cry all through the 1990s that a million Iraqi children a year were dying because of the sanctions. I notice we haven't heard a peep out of those folks since the war started. They'll be yelping again now, though.