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Subject: [vfp92speak] 250,000 Civilian deaths in Iraq


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> NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN
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> U.S. invasion responsible deaths of over 250,000 civilians in Iraq
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> Original address http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Iraq_war.php
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> by John Stokes
> Iraq War
>
> New studies make the Bush administration's "liberation" argument for a
> 'pre-emptive' war against Iraq seem questionable.
>
> The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by U.S.-led coalition forces has been
> responsible for the death of at least 150,000 civilians (not including
> certain of Iraq), reveals a compilitation of scientific studies and
> corroborated eyewitness testimonies.
>
> The majority of these deaths, which are in addition those normally
expected
> from natural causes, illness and accidents, have been among women and
> children, documents a well-researched study, that had been released by The
> Lancet Medical Journal.
>
> The report in the British journal is based on the work of teams from the
> Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University in the U.S., and the
> Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.
>
> A similar methodology was used in the late 1990's to calculate the number
of
> deaths from the war in Kosovo, put at 10,000.
>
> The information was obtained as Iraqi interviewers surveyed 808 families,
> consisting of 7,868 people, in 33 different "clusters" or neighbourhoods
> spread across the country.
>
> In each case, they asked how many births and deaths there had been in the
> home since January 2002.
> Iraq: Causes of Death
>
> That information was then compared with the death rates in each
> neighbourhood in the 15 months before the invasion that toppled president
> Saddam Hussein, adjusted for the different time frames, and extrapolated
to
> cover the entire 24.4 million population of Iraq.
>
> The most common cause of death is as a direct result of a worsening
'culture
> of violence', mostly caused by indiscriminate U.S. co-ordinated air
strikes,
> and related military interventions, reveals the study of almost 1000
> households scattered across Iraq. And the risk of violent death just after
> the invasion was 58 times greater than before the war. The overall risk of
> death was 1.5 times more after the invasion than before.
>
> The on-going American Occupation has also created worsened civil strife as
> well as mass environmental destructions and related public health problems
> that is associated with American bomb-related released radioactive and
other
> life-threatening pollutions. The American Occupation has also prevailed
over
> the neglect to the repairing of vital public services-related
> infrastructure, which include U.S.-led destructions of water systems.
>
> The figure of 100,000 had been based on somewhat "conservative
assumptions",
> notes Les Roberts at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
> Baltimore, U.S., who led the study.
>
> That estimate excludes Falluja, a hotspot for violence. If the data from
> this town is included, the compiled studies point to about 250,000 excess
> deaths since the outbreak of the U.S.-led war.
>
> Many Americans have complained that more than $200 billion U.S. tax
dollars
> have been diverted from vitally needed public services in the United
States,
> into apparently reckless activities. These activities are resulting in
> inflicted mass-casualities against totally innocent civilians, which have
> worsened conditions for political extremism, and ensuing "terrorism".
>
> It is well documented that such activities are being viewed by many
Iraqis,
> and other peoples internationally, to undermine a popular feeling of
> international security in general. Indeed, polls suggest that Americans
felt
> much more secure under the former political ledership of U.S. President
Bill
> Clinton, as compared to the militaristic strategies which are being
pursued
> by the George W. Bush administration.
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