October 29, 2004
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Thu Oct 28, 3:37 PM ET
By EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer
LONDON - A survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months since the U.S.-led invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.
There is no official figure for the number of Iraqis killed since the conflict began, but some non-governmental estimates range from 10,000 to 30,000. As of Wednesday, 1,081 U.S. servicemen had been killed, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
The survey indicated violence accounted for most of the extra deaths seen since the invasion, and airstrikes from coalition forces caused most of the violent deaths, the researchers wrote.
"Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children," they said.
Comments (2)
This is very interesting. There is no way to really know I suspect. And how many were being killed by Saddam each year? Was this high initially and decreasing? If it is more than would have been killed by Sadam in a year, where to the two curves cross, or do they. In five years, will there be less or more Iraqi's dead through the violence of US "occupation" than would have been through the violence of the regime and other wars he may have been involved in?
I don't know...I didn't support the invasion, but only because I knew there was no good way out.
This information may be relevant, and it may be disinformation...and unless presented in context, is really of little value. But my guess is that those who initially reported it don't much care about that.
But it is useful to post, to think about all of these things....Meph
War is not the answer, no matter the cause.
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