More Than One Million Iraqis Killed Since U.S. Invasion
September 17th, 2007I see that O.J. is top news again.
Via: ORB:
In the week in which General Patraeus reports back to US Congress on the impact the recent ‘surge’ is having in Iraq, a new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003.
Previous estimates, most noticeably the one published in the Lancet in October 2006, suggested almost half this number (654,965 deaths).
These findings come from a poll released today by ORB, the British polling agency that has been tracking public opinion in Iraq since 2005. In conjunction with their Iraqi fieldwork agency a representative sample of 1,499 adults aged 18+ answered the following question:-
QHow many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (ie as a result of violence rather than a natural death such as old age)? Please note that I mean those who were actually living under your roof.
None 78%
One 16%
Two 5%
Three 1%
Four or more 0.002%
Given that from the 2005 census there are a total of 4,050,597 households this data suggests a total of 1,220,580 deaths since the invasion in 2003.
Detailed analysis (which is available on our website) indicates that almost one in two households in Baghdad have lost a family member, significantly higher than in any other area of the country. The governorates of Diyala (42%) and Ninewa (35%) were next.
The poll also questioned the surviving relatives on the method in which their loved ones were killed. It reveals that 48% died from a gunshot wound, 20% from the impact of a car bomb, 9% from aerial bombardment, 6% as a result of an accident and 6% from another blast/ordnance.
More: A Deafening Silence on Report of One Million Iraqis Killed Under U.S. Occupation
Most everyone agrees that the 6M jews killed by Hitler’s Germany in WW II was a holocaust. The US Congress has been debating a bill that would label the 1.5M Armenians killed in 1915 to 1917 as a genocide.
The 1.2M killed in Iraq by the US since 2003, plus the 0.1M to 0.2M killed in the first Gulf War, puts the US pretty close to the genocide level in Iraq alone.
Of course if you include the 5.1M killed by the US in the Vietnam War, they exceeded the holocaust threshold some time ago.
I’m sure Nazis must have thought they were “good guys” too….