Iraq conflict has cost 1.2 million lives, claims civilian survey

A startling new household survey of Iraqis released last week claims as many as 1.2 million people may have died because of the conflict in Iraq - apparently lending weight to a 2006 survey in the Lancet that reported similarly high levels.

More than one million deaths were already being suggested by anti-war campaigners, but such high counts have consistently been rejected by US and UK officials. The estimates, extrapolated from a sample of 1,461 adults around the country, were collected by a British polling agency, ORB, which asked Iraqis how many people living in their household had died as a result of the violence rather than from natural causes.

Previous estimates, most prominently collected by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, reported in Lancet in October 2006, suggested almost half this number, 654,965, as a likely figure in a possible range of 390,000 to 940,000.

Although the household survey was carried out by a polling organisation, rather than by epidemiological researchers operating under the discipline of scientific peer review, it has again raised the spectre that the 2003 invasion of Iraq has caused a far more substantial death toll than officially acknowledged by the US or UK governments or the Iraqi Ministry of Health.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2170237,00.html

When will the Hague begin proceeding?

If this is not a war crime, what is? If this is not mass murder, what is?

That one comment says quite a bit. What it says to me is that Bill Clinton merely continued the policy of the Bushes. As will Hillary Clinton. Welcome to the oligarchy.

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and that does not take into account the millions that were forced to flee the country or relocate to another part of the country to escape the sectarian conflicts that arose thanks to the US invasion and the resulting destabilization of the country.