More than One Million Iraqis Dead Since 2003 Invasion
February 3rd, 2008Via: AFP:
More than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to a study published Wednesday.
A fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict, said data compiled by London-based Opinion Research Business (ORB) and its research partner in Iraq, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS).
The study based its findings on survey work involving the face-to-face questioning of 2,414 Iraqi adults aged 18 or above, and the last complete census in Iraq in 1997, which indicated a total of 4.05 million households.
Respondents were asked how many members of their household, if any, had died as a result of the violence in the country since 2003, and not because of natural causes.
“We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been in the order of 1,033,000,” ORB said in a statement.
The margin of error for the survey was 1.7 percent, making the estimated range between 946,000 and 1.12 million fatalities.
The highest rate of deaths throughout the country occurred in Baghdad, where more than 40 percent of households had lost a family member.
According to a July 2007 estimate by the United States, Iraq’s population is around 27 million.
The country has been wracked by conflict since the March 2003 invasion which deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, with United Nations estimates putting the number of displaced people from the conflict at more than four million, nearly half of which have fled to neighbouring countries.
An adult human being contains 8-10 pints of blood. Assuming there was a significant number of children killed, we can still assume at least 4 pints per person. So that’s 1,000,000 * 4 = 4,000,000 pints, or 500,000 gallons of blood; i.e., the cost of those record profits for ExxonMobil, Shell, Halliburton, KBR, NorthrupGrumman, etc was a mere half a million gallons of human blood. What an awesome ROI, eh?!
Thank God Obama’s gonna ride into town and set it all straight. Really! He gave a poignant speech the other day! What more proof do you need? We can all relax now, good cop’s going to make it aaaaaaaaall better.
A tragedy of the magnitude of the Holocaust. Yet, this time WE are to blame.
Anothernut:
Yea. I like your calculation even though its in blood rather than the “spilt milk” concept that the US politicians would leave it at.
And yes sir ree, Mr. Bob Obama will set it straight. Right up your ass bro!http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html
I could also send you 20 more links re HClinton. For that matter here’s one at least:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/26377.html
Mind you. I’m a pissed off woman who has more than a few comrades in arms holding my back.
For us, both both Clinton and Obama are apostolic corporate whores.
But we smile,laugh and like a bunch of Stepford Wives have to pretend we used to have minds, a voice, a country where we once had a voice.
Goddam Amerika. There I said it and all the air just went out of my balloon, and if you want to do something you better say something to put air in my tires because I’m tired of all this bullshit. I need some kind of CPR here.
Thanks.