[Marxism] Study: 100,000 "Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths" Since War

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Study: 100,000 Excess Civilian Iraqi Deaths Since War

By Patricia Reaney

LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violence
since the U.S.-led invasion last year, American public health experts have
calculated in a report that estimates there were 100,000 "excess deaths" in
18 months. The rise in the death rate was mainly due to violence and much of
it was caused by U.S. air strikes on towns and cities.

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths,
or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report published
online by The Lancet medical journal. "The use of air power in areas with
lots of civilians appears to be killing a lot of women and children,"
Roberts told Reuters.

The report came just days before the U.S. presidential election in which the
Iraq war has been a major issue.

Story at:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-us-12-l6&flok=FF-RTO-ront
z&idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20041028%2F1457167130.htm&sc=rontz




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