Study Puts Iraqi Death Toll at 151,000

[nhboy]

" — About 151,000 Iraqis died from violence in the three years after the United States invaded, concludes the best effort yet to count deaths _ one that still may not settle the fierce debate over the war's true toll on civilians and others.

The estimate comes from projections by the World Health Organization and the Iraqi government, based on door-to-door surveys of nearly 10,000 households. Experts called it the largest and most scientific study of the Iraqi death toll since the war began.

Its bottom line is far lower than the 600,000 deaths reported in an earlier study but higher than numbers from other groups tracking the count."

Study Puts Iraqi Death Toll at 151,000 - Politics on The Huffington Post

 

[beerlover]

What do you call 151,000 dead Iraqis? A pretty good start.

 

[Lenny]

What do you call 151,000 dead Iraqis? A pretty good start.

This must be were all the virgins come from.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

after last night's beer bash, the total now stands at 151,003. Three Iraqi insurgent collaborators living in Southern Maryland were overwhelmed by reality and the last remaining synapses fell silent. They felt no pain as they were brain dead beforehand. They were identified only as jpc, forestal and kerad (a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammed, or so he claimed).

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[Mikeinsmd]

after last night's beer bash, the total now stands at 151,004. Four Iraqi insurgent collaborators living in Southern Maryland were overwhelmed by reality and the last remaining synapses fell silent. They felt no pain as they were brain dead beforehand. They were identified only as jpc, forestal, kerad (a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammed, or so he claimed) and nhboy.
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[Mikeinsmd]

What do you call 151,000 dead Iraqis? A pretty good start.

And about 151,000 short....

 

[chernmax]

Wow looks like it's catching up to DC...

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

:fixed:

I wasn't counting MPDs. Once the main boy is dead, they're all dead.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

The way I look at it...

... that's 151,000 less Iraqis that could do harm to our soldiers.

 

[vegmom]

What do you call 151,000 dead Iraqis? A pretty good start.

... that's 151,000 less Iraqis that could do harm to our soldiers.

Y'all are sick.

How do you know who these people are that died?

I doubt they were all insurgents. Did it cross your mind that in a number that size there could be plenty of folks who were killed by millitias and terrorists? Children and other bystanders caught in the crossfire?

Not everyone who dies in wars is a combatant. Just ask anyone who lived in Europe during WW2, fled Korea or Viet Nam, etc.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Y'all are sick.

How do you know who these people are that died?

I doubt they were all insurgents. Did it cross your mind that in a number that size there could be plenty of folks who were killed by millitias and terrorists? Children and other bystanders caught in the crossfire?

Not everyone who dies in wars is a combatant. Just ask anyone who lived in Europe during WW2, fled Korea or Viet Nam, etc.

yourself rabbit-food eater.

It's also only 151,000. More of our soldiers have died in previous wars.

 

[Xaquin44]

.... so that makes it ok?

 

[ImnoMensa]

151,000 in the last six years' a lot of people, but lets try a little perspective.

The largest number of deaths attributable to Mr. Hussein's regime resulted from the war between Iraq and Iran between 1980 and 1988, which was launched by Mr. Hussein. Iraq says its own toll was 500,000, and Iran's reckoning ranges upward of 300,000.

100,000 Kurds killed or disappeared during Saddamns reign.

Mass graves discovered in 2003 place the numbers of Kurds Shia's and dissidents killed by Hussein as high as 300,000.

Between 450,000 and 700,000 Iranians died in the Saddam wars against Iran.

Hussein killed 1,000 Kuwaiti's in his invasion of Kuwait.

Saddam launches a campaign against the Shia Marsh Arabs killing 150,000

Placed in perspective : its a lot of people,but Saddam was worse, and they had no hope.

 

[vegmom]

yourself rabbit-food eater.

It's also only 151,000. More of our soldiers have died in previous wars.

Did the all Iraqis who died in this war kill those soldiers from previous wars? How does one human beings sensless death justify another's? Does it make either one less dead?


Aren't we over there fighting off the same terrorists that had a hand in those 151,000 deaths? Or do you think 151,000 were all terrorists? No women, children, elderly, etc among them?

Non-combatant civilians almost always bear the brunt of war deaths. That's an unavoidable fact.

Here, eductate yourself:
Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls