In yet another one of those REPORTS that George W. Bush would love to silence, we get a real glimpse into his own Darfur...he lied to take us as a nation into Iraq, and has steadfastly claimed that the Iraqi People are BETTER OFF after said INVASION. Tell that to the 650,000 dead citizens, and their families that number into the millions. This number represents over 2.5 percent of the entire population of the nation and it GROWING daily.
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More than 650,000 Iraqi civilians have died in violence as a result of the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, a new study has said.
"We estimate that as of July 2006, there have been 654,965... excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of the war, which corresponds to 2.5% of the population in the study area," the report published in the Lancet, a medical journal, said on Wednesday.
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if we leave, without iraq being able to secure its borders nor patrol their streets, the death count would be likely to go much higher.
Both this and the earlier study are the only ones to estimate mortality in Iraq using scientific methods. The technique, called "cluster sampling," is used to estimate mortality in famines and after natural disasters.
For Burnham's study, researchers gathered data from a sample of 1,849 Iraqi households with a total of 12,801 residents from late May to early July. That sample was used to extrapolate the total figure. The estimate deals with deaths up to July.
The survey was conducted between May 20 and July 10 by eight Iraqi physicians organized through Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. They visited 1,849 randomly selected households that had an average of seven members each. One person in each household was asked about deaths in the 14 months before the invasion and in the period after.
Eight doctors, 1849 households 231 households each. That is 5.6 household each. Day including Saturday and Sunday. The total area of Iraq is 169,234 sq mi. Those eight doctors traveled a lot. Or did they just drop into the areas where the car bombs had recently gone off.
So I'm sitting at my house and some doctor knocks on the door. He asks me how many people do you know of who died in the last 14 months. And I pull my list of 366 people out of my hat. I have written down all their names and the circumstances of their deaths. They all lived on my block and I knew them all personally. I remember who died in the last 14 months and who died of what and if it was caused by the war. Please (((SARCASM OFF)))
What is likely to have happened here is many of the deaths were reported by several people. Unless there is a list of names the number is a falsehood.
There are only two states of any one human. Alive or dead. There is only two ways to count the dead. Who is missing and presumed dead and who you actually see the body. If there is a large number of presumed dead in this report it is not truthful to give that number and a death total. If there is a large number of double reports It is not truthful to give that number as a death toll.
I challenge you to name 366 people that you know personally. I then, challenge you to say accurately weather they are alive or dead. Then, if they are dead tell how they died.
Do not accuse me of not caring. It is because I do care that I object to people using those deaths as a political tool.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976813129
Regardless I feel like the more deaths.....the better your argument is. How did democrats put themselves into a position that the only good news is bad news? It is really sad because there are only two relevant parties in America and it seems power is more important than their country for one of them.
From my seat in the audience, see that party being the Republican Party. Especially after this whole Foley Gate Scandal has broken...seems they would rather hide a sexual predator than do the right thing by America's children if it means keeping the majority.
The elected government of Iraq puts the number close to 50,000. Why would they lie??? Porgie will believe anything that conforms to his "I hate bush" screed.