Iraqi Death Toll

[Borderfox]

How many people know roughly how many lives have been lost in iraq since march 2003.? The pentagon would have us believe the figure is at around 30 000,now we all know thats a gross underestimation,most western nations however seem to tow that line, CNN and other propaganda machines do the same. The fact is at least 300 000 have been slain directly or indirectly by this greed driven war,note that i said at least.! US troop deaths have also been underestimated ,but that is overlooked,after all your average soldier is cannonfodder and does not have a middle class lobby to fight his corner.

 

[Cyre2067]

I think there was a John's Hopkins study that conservatively estimated 100,000 civilian causalities.

Googled and found a link:
http://www.jhsph.edu/PublicHealthNews/Press_Releases/PR_2004/Burnham_Iraq.html

They excluded info from Falluja which i posted a snippet below from (http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1587)

But independent journalists reporting from Fallujah have described a scene consistent with the one broadcast by Al Jazeera. Rahul Mahajan, a U.S. journalist in Fallujah, estimated that of the 600 Iraqis killed in Fallujah, 200 were women and 100 young children, with many of the adult male casualties also non-combatants. He reported witnessing "a young woman, 18 years old, shot in the head" and "a young boy with massive internal bleeding" at a clinic (CommonDreams.org, 4/12/04). Mahajan recounted that during the "cease-fire," "Americans were attacking with heavy artillery but primarily with snipers"-- with ambulances among the targets. The sniper activity was also reported by U.S. journalist Dahr Jamail (NewStandardNews.net, 4/11/04): "Fallujah residents say Marines are opening fire randomly on unarmed civilians and have attacked clearly marked ambulances."

 

[Joe]

Latest figures are around 250,000

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm

Joe