CONFIRMED: Over 1 Million Iraqi Citizens-KILLED-Violently By Bush Admin

[kpete]

January 2008 - Update on Iraqi Casualty Data

Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003.

Following responses to ORB’s earlier work, which was based on survey work undertaken in primarily urban locations, we have conducted almost 600 additional interviews in rural communities. By and large the results are in line with the ‘urban results’ and we now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000. If one takes into account the margin of error associated with survey data of this nature then the estimated range is between 946,000 and 1,120,000.

Further information about the research, our calculations, questionnaire wording and data tables is available by clicking on the links below. Also available is an article providing background on IIACSS and its founding director Dr. Munqith Dagher.

more (plus links) at:
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=88

[spanone]

1. yet last night congress gave him standing ovation after standing ovation....seriously fucked

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R...Exactly! Every mention of "spreading freedom"

"spreading hope" in regards to Bush's insane "wars", up they stood and clapping like sycophants of the lie

[Seabiscuit]

43. For Bushco, "spreading freedom" = genocide for oil.

Friggin' mass murderers!

Religion has yet to conceive of a Hell vile and putrid enough for that gang.

[earth mom]

27. Yup & the majority of Congress has blood on their hands. If there is a hell, they will ALL fry. nt

[Seabiscuit]

44. The Christian "Hell" is far too good a *place* for them.

[EFerrari]

38. I think I heard today that half of the Iraqi population has been

displaced, injured or killed.

[nightrider767]

3. So What? We've Become numb to tragedy and genocide...

What's become of this country? So many people murdered and killed.

We now torture people.

Is this the twilight zone?

I think it is, I need to pinch myself, wake up.

But I've tried that and all I end up with is pinch marks and a bigger sense of disenfranchisement.

As a teen I knew exactly how Holden Caufield felt and now that feeling is coming back...

[madokie]

4. I'll probably be beat up for this but we have us a War Criminal as a pResident and Vice pResident

its hard for me to wrap my little brain around that but I have done it and I feel comfortable with it.
Yes its off to the Hague for these two and others in their administration before this is all said and done. :woohoo:

[Solly Mack]

6. I won't beat you up :)

[nightrider767]

7. But that's not part of the nightmare

In the nightmare, both men leave office to further increase their wealth by selling influence on even more government contracts, while more people continue to get injured and die, and we all get poorer.

[spanone]

8. you are absolutely correct...yet we'll name airports and museums after mr bu$h*

and they will rewrite history to make him appear human

[awoke_in_2003]

35. Yep, no doubt

we will, one day, have another repub controlled house. They will probably go on the same naming rampage they did for rayguns.

On edit- to think, we used to name school and airports and other things after great people- like JFK, Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington. Now we are reduced to Reagans and Bushs.

[bdamomma]

14. if our filthy government does not hold those who committed these

criminal acts accountable some other country will. Damn what they have done to this country? and they are still sitting there, smirking and making us all look like fools. How could we live with ourselves? Sad very sad.

[madokie]

15. how I do it is being Mad

a damn mad assed okie I am.

I say we can't have a democracy and these war criminals walk free. No two ways about it in my world that is

Add: now you know where the Mad in madokie comes from.;-)

[WritersBlock]

23. EXACTLY!! Our so-called democracy is a sham if these war criminals go free. PRECISELY!

::ahem:: Sorry for the caps. But you've SO voiced my exact thoughts.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Well, no country will hold us

accountable militarily. Economically, however, is a much different story. If they (other countries) do, we will all pay for the sins of our government.

[moobu2]

5. But every life is precious to Bush

:eyes:

(Edited to add a sarcasm eye roll in case anyone thought I was serious.)

[Echo In Light]

9. "OPERATION: SOARING EAGLE!" ...er, no, that was The Simpsons

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. "Liberated" ...from their earthly existence.

Got fascism?

[L. Coyote]

19. "OPERATION: PRANCING EAGLE!"

Named after the honorary title given to Bush by Native Americans.
However, they forgot to tell Bush one little detail:

A "Prancing Eagle" is a large mythical bird so full of sh*t it can no longer fly!

[ananda]

10. So, it might not exactly be genocide..

.. but it's still bad enough.

[indepat]

11. Enough to make one wonder how long would it be before the Iraqi dead approaches the Soviet dead

in WWII as a percent the population killed during invasion and occupation?

[madrchsod]

12. the genocide of the iraqi people has never stopped since the

the first gulf war. bush,clinton,and bush all have blood of the iraqi`s on their hands. will the next president dip their hands in blood? the iraq`s await our decision

[awoke_in_2003]

37. Bingo.

Some don't like to face the fact that a lot of people died between the wars due to embargos. While not as violent, they were just as effective.

[juno jones]

46. But, but, but Madeline Albright said it was all worth it

And it chilled me to see her standing next to the Clintons.

[Zywiec]

50. What?? Iraqis died in the '90's??

But a Democrat was president and our economy was booming and life was good and and and

Nothing kills a thread quicker than mentioning that the killing didn't start on January 20, 2001. Apparently people can't seem to remember anything that happened just a few years ago.


Hmmmmm, maybe it's all those pot smoking threads I've seen lately.
:hide:

[bdamomma]

13. ethic cleansing or genocide that is what this filthy administration

has committed. * and Cheney have killed more people than Saddam ever did.

[jonnyra]

16. This administration is made up of

hucksters, liars, thieves and war criminals. We have democratic leaders running cover for them for reasons we may never know. This government is no longer a democracy...its organized crime...plain and simple. There is no hope for this nation...we are run by war criminals and thieves and there is no one to stop them. The only action that might bring about change is a popular uprising in which We The People occupy the white house grounds and demand the removal of the criminals including Pelosi and Reid. Short of this we are screwed.

[frog92969]

41. I'll be there

with my pitchfork!

[L. Coyote]

17. The unintended consequences of allowing Bush/Cheney to steal the Executive.

At the end of the day, it is the USA and not Bush/Cheney who will suffer the consequences of their bellicose criminality.

[L. Coyote]

18. K & R & Impeach two too

[jtrockville]

20. THEY DIED FOR LIES! Damn him.

[conspirator]

21. that makes saddam look like a saint n/t

[sellitman]

49. *Ding* Ding**Ding* Ding*Ding* Ding*

A winner!

[Done]

22. Somebody needs to point out that bush has not gotten a blow job.

So what can you do?

:shrug:

[lonestarnot]

24. Son of a bitch I hope he is eternally haunted.

[progressoid]

25. Huh? What? How does this affect Brittany's court appearance?

And what about Heath? And Christian Brando?

[cbayer]

32. And what about that handshake incident? nt.

[stephinrome]

26. add the counter to your web site

from Just Foreign Policy:

Post the Iraqi Death Estimator on your website
Fight attempts to minimize Iraqi suffering and remind visitors to your site of the awful human costs of continued war.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

[robertpaulsen]

28. How long before MSM calls it by its real name: GENOCIDE!

For that matter, when all is said and done with the primaries, and the candidates square off in debate, will the Democratic candidate have the guts to counter the "Surge is Success" meme the Rethugs will spout by saying the price of this success is GENOCIDE?!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. This post would cause multiple orgasms over at Freak Republic

That many dead Arabs would warm the cockles of their delicate little hearts.

[malaise]

30. And when exactly will this mass murderer

be arrested?

[Disturbed]

31. The Head LIne is false.

Busholini & his Regime have been directly responsible for a large number of Iraqi deaths & indirectly responsible for a large number but directly responsible for over a million is not correct.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

33. The death toll will mount

the responsibility for this stretches far beyond Herr Bush.

[whistle]

34. Bush Jr as a mass murderer really seems to get off on these numbers

[libodem]

39. this is more in keeping with what I thought were the

real numbers. I'd been hearing 600,000 but seriously thought that was too low because I'd head over a million some time ago. This makes a lot of sense paired with the articles stating that the Army encourages brutality and senseless killing of civilians. This stupid war has SO not been about bringing democracy or a better life to the Iraqis. Only about the oil and giving Halliburton and Blackwater no bid cost plus contracts. You know if the, Kennedys, had a curse you can sure as hell bet that the, Cheneys, and, Bushes, will have a curse over their families for generations. There has to be a karmic debt for this even if there seems there will never be any civil or criminal prosecution.

[annm4peace]

Print off report and send to your Reps and News station

I printed off and will send 8 copies.

Let them know that YOU know. and come to MN for the RNC and bring very enlarged pictures of these deaths.

[unkachuck]

40. what a....

....pathetic, barbaric group of people we've become....completely devoid of all humanity....

....can you imagine what we'd do you if we really didn't like you?

[frog92969]

42. K&R...For the light of day.

Arrest, convict and sentense appropriately!

Heartless, brainless, treasonous mass murderers!

[Blue_Tires]

45. eh...they all supported the terrors anyways

:sarcasm:

[Twist_U_Up]

47. I didnt think there were a million Terrorists in Iraq.

With many more to be killed in this war on terror.

What a fucking joke. Its an oil grab.

[Finite]

48. While I think this number is about right

It should be pointed out that the majority of deaths in Iraq appear to have been caused by either:

a) Other Iraqis
b) Foreign Jihaddists

America is no doubt responsible for many deaths and orchestrated this mess in the first place, but I honestly don't think the US military is doing the majority of the killing.