128,000 DEAD Iraqis since Mar. 2003. 55% Women and Children

[leftchick]

I had not seen this report before. It certainly seems to jibe with the Lancet report of a year ago. This one includes the slaughters in Fallujah and al-Qaim during the past year.

*Warning of a very graphic photo at the link.

:(

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m13663&l=i&size=1&hd=0

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BAGHDAD, July 12, 2005 -- An Iraqi humanitarian organization is reporting that 128,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion began in March 2003.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that chairman of the 'Iraqiyun humanitarian organization in Baghdad, Dr. Hatim al-'Alwani, said that the toll includes everyone who has been killed since that time, adding that 55 percent of those killed have been women and children aged 12 and under.

'Iraqiyun obtained data from relatives and families of the deceased, as well as from Iraqi hospitals in all the country's provinces. The 128,000 figure only includes those whose relatives have been informed of their deaths and does not include those were abducted, assassinated or simply disappeared.

The number includes those who died during the U.S. assaults on al-Fallujah and al-Qa'im. 'Iraqiyun's figures conflict with the Iraqi Body Count public database compiled by Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies. According to the Graduate Institute of International Studies' database, 39,000 Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of combat or armed violence since March 2003. No official estimates of Iraqi casualties from the war have been issued by the Pentagon, which insists that it does not do "body counts." The Washington Post on July 12 reported that U.S. military deaths in Iraq now total 1,755.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. And

Chimp and Poddle wonder why there are more terrorist now.

[leftchick]

2. I think they want more terrorists

perpetual "war on terra" is the plan.

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Well you cant

nuke them your plane all useless infact the whole military cant fight this war on terror. Oh well good luck

[sonsera]

9. And

this from a so called Christian Nation and a "self proclaimed" Christian President.

[Oversea Visitor]

10. Your so call christian president

is a moron.
If he get to walk away from all this
Who will inherit all the hatred from the unjust war on Iraq
Who will get hurt from future terrorist attack

WAR ON TERROR :rofl: Think what is going to be the future like if Bush just up and walk away without punishment.
Will the attack stop....I dont think so that is the sad cold reality.

[LynnTheDem]

11. So was Germany & their leader "christian"....Sig Heil!

Same shit, different asshole.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

14. Gott mit uns

sound familiar?

[newyawker99]

12. Hi sonsera!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[leftchick]

15. pro-life to murikan "christians" only means Pro-Fetus

and only white ones at that.

Welcome to DU sonsera!

[TomClash]

3. At least they're free! nt

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Add to this the tens of thousands we smoked in '91, and you have

the basis for an enduring hatred of the U.S. by the inhabitants of a country that has never lifted a finger towards us... in spite of the fact that they were bombed, sanctioned, and harrassed for years.

[Oversea Visitor]

7. Dont be too sure on that yet

If Bush get to walk away from this, US will inherit this hatred for a long long time.
Sadly this is reality, you guys paying a very very high price in the future for all this.

This injustice need to be address or it will forever hounds US and its citizen.

[Vinca]

6. If anyone has the technical skills to do it - I don't - here's an idea:

a web site to post pictures of innocent, dead Iraqis. I haven't a clue how we could get their pictures, maybe families would have them added once word got out. It just seems like these people are totally forgotten by the world. There's a huge outpouring of grief for London - as there should be - but yesterday alone just as many Iraqis died and the world reacts as if flies are being swatted.

[H2O Man]

8. "They must see Americans

as strange liberators. .... We have destroyed their two most cherised institutions: the family and the village. We have destropyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only non-communist revolutionary political force -- the unified Buddhist church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. What liberators?"
-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr; "A Time to Break Silence"; 4-4-67

[Selatius]

13. This group seems to be corroborating the estimate done by the Lancet study

The Lancet study:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T1B-4DV11P2-13&_coverDate=11%2F26%2F2004&_alid=296519297&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=4886&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=20cb215df41e95ffa32589008f7eadfe