Wednesday, 19 March 2008

Five long years of war in Iraq - time to reflect on our sins


March 19 Blog Swarm logo.

Professor Gideon Polya from Australia writing on Iraq War
death toll last year.

"As of September 2007: (a) the accrual cost of the Bush War on Terror stands at $2.5 trillion (as determined by US 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz) ; (b) there are 4 million Iraqi refugees; (c) the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) total 1.1 million; (d) post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.5 million (a corrected estimate based on the latest UN data); (e) there were 1.7 million excess Iraqi deaths associated with the Western-imposed 1990-2003 Sanctions War; (f) there were 1.2 million under-5 year old infant deaths in the 1990-2003 Sanctions War; and (g) Coalition military deaths now total about 4,086 (see:
http://icasualties.org/oif/ )."

Opinion Research Business (ORB) Iraq casualty survey
media release January 2008.
ORB full survey data
here.

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