Posted on 06/25/2006 6:48:21 AM PDT by yoe
At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies — a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration.
Many more Iraqis are believed to have been killed but not counted because of serious lapses in recording deaths in the chaotic first year after the invasion, when there was no functioning Iraqi government, and continued spotty reporting nationwide since. The toll, which is mostly of civilians but probably also includes some security forces and insurgents, is daunting: Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed nationwide in the last three years.
In the same period, at least 2,520 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq.
Iraqi officials involved in compiling the statistics say violent deaths in some regions have been grossly undercounted, notably in the troubled province of Al Anbar in the west. Health workers there are unable to compile the data because of violence, security crackdowns, electrical shortages and failing telephone networks.
The Health Ministry acknowledged the undercount. In addition, the ministry said its figures exclude the three northern provinces of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan because Kurdish officials do not provide death toll figures to the government in Baghdad.
In the three years since Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled, the Bush administration has rarely offered civilian death tolls. Last year, President Bush said he believed that "30,000, more or less, have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis."
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In WWII we had a song that went "Accentuate the positive" sung by Bing Crosby. Apparently that's not the philosophy of the L.A. Times.
Who is doing most of the killing? Answer: AQ and the insurgents. The Iraqi police and military have lost almost 5,000 killed or about twice the American losses.
Yeah, probably.
wars should not cause loss of life....
Yes they did. And that Lancet paper claimed that they were all civilians despite the curious fact that the overwhelming majority of them were males between the ages of 18-30...
Precisely the ages of all the Iraqi soldiers who (quite wisely) got rid of their uniforms and melted into the general population.
I'm assuming that the numbers are similar in this report.
...or put another way....The United States has saved 150,000 Iraqi lives since 2003.
And WHO killed them? By their silence, the liberal scum sucking bastards at the LAT point the finger at our troops when the vast majority were killed by the bad guys.
The LAT can only survive is the USA, a country it loathes. Any place that it protects, like Cuba or a terrorit ruled Iraq, they be dragged from their newsrooms and shot. Chavez has a law jailing journalists who insult the President or his office.
Send the LAT to the lands they protect and let them live there. It certainly doesn't look out for Americans anymore.
Cowboy sitting at a bar. An indian comes in and sits down next to him. Then a muslim enters and sits on the cowboy's other side.
The Indian announces, "My people...once we were many, now we are few." The cowboy sips his beer.
The muslim then announces, "My people...once we were few, now we are many."
The Cowboy sips his beer again and says, "That's 'cause we ain't played cowboys and muslims yet."
It's a slug line similar to the 200,000 dead reported in every Bosnia-Herzegovina war story from Day One.
The military hasn't even cooperated in getting it up to the one-day 9/11 total.
Bet the MSM never makes that comparison.
Head um up and move um out.
Bush has allowed this to become another police action not a war, until this changes we are going to lose.
You know what that means?
THE LEFT'S CLAIMED IRAQI DEATH TOLL PLUMMETS AFTER SADDAM IS TOPPLED BY THE U.S.
I thought it was closer to 6000 @ Normandy.
How many of those are foreign fighters? There was a statistic not long ago showing the death rate has gone down since Saddam was removed.
You can not apply a future tense to something that has already happened.
Victory in Iraq is now 3 years old.
that number is NOTHING compared to what the Islamofascists would achieve in the US given the opportunity and if we weren't fighting them OVER THERE.
Last death toll figure I saw for the reign of Saddam Hussein was 400,000+, with some 2.7 million total missing.
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