Monday, July 18, 2005

From Hiroshima to Fallujah: The Slaughter of Civilians Continues

By Rosemarie Jackowski

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  1. I agree with your basic point about the U.S., that we have killed an awful lot of people. 

    Still, the 100,000 Iraq death figure is questionable.  The article in Lancet basically says “we’re 95% certain that civilian deaths were between 8,000 and 194,000.  So that’s (194,000 + 8,000)/2 X .95 = roughly 96,000 deaths.  Call it 100,000 dead.”

    This is simply not convincing.  Human Rights Watch and iraqbodycount.com both found the number to be very highly inflated.

    iraqbodycount.com currently puts the total civilian death count at around 26,000.  They include in this number all deaths by insurgents, criminals, disease, fighting between ethnic groups, etc., since their position is that the U.S. is responsible for preventing all of these. 

    I don’t know if Human Rights Watch has come out with their own figure.

    Posted by Nitpicky from All over, dude  on  07/31  at  04:21 AM
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