[Marxism] 50,000 Iraqis dead - as though U.S. lost 570,000

[Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

War's Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000

By Louise Roug and Doug Smith, Los AngelesTimes Staff Writers
June 25, 2006

BAGHDAD — At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003  
U.S.-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue,  
the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies — a toll 20,000 higher  
than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration.

Many more Iraqis are believed to have been killed but not counted  
because of serious lapses in recording deaths in the chaotic first  
year after the invasion, when there was no functioning Iraqi  
government, and continued spotty reporting nationwide since.
The toll, which is mostly of civilians but probably also includes  
some security forces and insurgents, is daunting: Proportionately, it  
is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed nationwide in the  
last three years.

In the same period, at least 2,520 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq.

Iraqi officials involved in compiling the statistics say violent  
deaths in some regions have been grossly undercounted, notably in the  
troubled province of Al Anbar in the west. Health workers there are  
unable to compile the data because of violence, security crackdowns,  
electrical shortages and failing telephone networks.

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