Between 21,000 & 55,000 Iraqis have died as a result of Bush invasion

[NNN0LHI]

Iraqi Death Toll, Health Perils Assessed by Medical Group


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20031111/wl_oneworld/4536725251068563485&cid=655&ncid=1480

WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov 11 (OneWorld) -- Between 21,000 and 55,000 people have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, according to a new report that also warned of rapidly deteriorating health conditions for those who survived.

London-based Medact, the British affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), concluded that the war's continuing impact--particularly the failure of occupation authorities to ensure security-- has resulted in a further deterioration of the Iraqi population's health status. IPPNW's U.S. affiliate, Physicians for Social Responsibility, joined in the report's release Tuesday. The report's funding was provided by Oxfam and the Polden-Puckham Charitable Foundation.

"The health of the Iraqi people is generally worse than before the war," according to an executive summary of the 12-report, which noted that the state of health in Iraq was already poor by international standards. It said women and children were particularly at risk due to the breakdown in law and order and damage to infrastructure and that women were also being affected by the emergence of religious conservatism after the war.

The report, entitled "Continuing Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq 2003," is the follow-up to a pre-war study released last November that predicted at the time that between 49,000 and 261,000 people could be killed in an invasion of Iraq over three months.

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[kentuck]

1. If there is such a huge discrepancy in the number killed ???

Do we know whether or not they are buried in "mass graves"?

[NewJeffCT]

2. To which the Bush admin will say...

Who knows how many more would have died under Hussein in that same time frame? And, by the way, we're making progress every day, thinks are looking up, bring 'em on if they want to attack our troops while I cut their benefits

[CWebster]

3. Iraqi deaths only enter into the equation

if Saddam can be blamed.

[NNN0LHI]

4. That may hold true for Americans? I bet Iraqis will disagree with that n/t

[berner59]

5. How can Bush sleep???

He's RESPONSIBLE for these deaths and why did they die??? Did they ask us to come over and bomb their country away?? And the whole notion that we did this to protect the U.S. is further disregard for human life...ok...let others die before we're killed...

This is really hard to comprehend...

[Malva Zebrina]

6. It is extremely disturbing

that no one will hold this stupid , ignorant man liable for these deaths. He is as guilty of murder as any serial killer. He attacked and invaded a country on false pretences and then proceeded to kill thousands of civilians, and maim more. He then proceeded to heap more insult when it was evident that he had no comprehensive plan in mind as to what to do when he marched triumphant through the Ishtar gate--except for his own greedy plan--to seize and plunder and take away from the Iraqi people all the resources that rightfully belong to them. Instead, we see continued brutal treatment of the people of Iraq and we hear more lies out of this killer's mouth than we ever heard before. We see the plundered Iraqi people trying to resist this madman and his ineptitude, being erroneously called "terrorists"

We should have some idea of the civilian deaths--I assume a lot of these are soldiers--and for those civilian deaths, Bush should be hung, drawn , quartered and displayed on the Potomac bridge except that he is so cowardly I doubt if he even has any guts to spill. This is the real tragedy: no one is going to bring this disgusting, greedy man to justice--he lied --he actually murdered people and justified it with lies and he got away with it. NEvermind voting him out of office--he lied and killed people at will with lies. No one cares? Hello world--do you care that a disgusting, man lied about his invasion, lied to kill these thousands?

[Scott Lee]

7. So on the low end....

You can tell the freepers that Herr Busch has visited 7 times the death on another country that was visited upon us on 9/11.

Do you think that will satiate them? Not bloody likely.