FACTBOX-Many tolls for Iraq's population

ZombieHorde

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Thu Jan-10-08 10:48 AM
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FACTBOX-Many tolls for Iraq's population

Jan 10 (Reuters) - About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the three years following the U.S.-led invasion of their country, according to new World Health Organisation (WHO) research.

The study which said violent deaths could have ranged from 104,000 to 223,000 between March 2003 and June 2006, is the most comprehensive since the war started.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL10731034

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DCKit

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Thu Jan-10-08 11:01 AM
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1. Why are they on a campaign to low-ball the numbers?

These past few days the MSM has been publishing numbers ranging from 60K-233K for Iraqi civilian casualties. Those of us who have been following "Teh War on Terra" know that both those numbers were surpassed several years ago and that the actual number of civilian deaths is well over a million now: Especially with 40K pounds of bombs being dropped this morning alone.

Why NOW is there a campaign to spread propoganda about the actual number of Iraqi civilian deaths? I'm confusededed. Why would the administration be looking for cover at this late date?

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ZombieHorde

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Thu Jan-10-08 11:07 AM
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2. From the same article

In October 2006 the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland published a study in which researchers from Johns Hopkins and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad carried out a survey which estimated that as a result of the war, about 655,000 people in the country of about 27 million have died above the number expected to have died without war. That meant that 2.5 percent of the Iraqi population had died because of the invasion and ensuing strife.

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