I have seen on this board many claims that at least 650,000 people have been killed since the US re-invaded Iraq. Where did this stat come from? Is it from a reliable source--the military, a reputable HR group like Amnesty Int'l--or from some Internet blogger on the lunatic fringe? I haven't seen a single primary or secondary source proving it, just a blanket claim from the anti-war left. So how many have really been killed? How many are civilians and how many terrorists or (dare I say it) legitimate insurgents? How many were killed by the Allies and how many by terrorist bombs? And of these terrorists, how many were al-Queda and how many Saddamy loyalists? But mostly, let's see some proof of the 650,000 claim.
2006-12-02 10:53:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
So it's a guesstimate from "epidemologists"?
2006-12-02 10:59:26 · update #1
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1842559.ece
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442.html
The Whitehouse disputes the claims.
2006-12-02 10:56:50 · answer #1 · answered by cavinue 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was produced by the British journal 'The Lancet' as an attempt to influence the US elections.
They tried the same thing two years ago with another bogus study by the same authors.
When are people going to learn that if what the media is reporting does not correlate with what the troops are seeing - there is a problem with the reporting.
2006-12-02 12:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It comes from a highly-disputed study done by the British medical journal, The Lancet. Even the CRC disagrees with their methodology.
2006-12-02 11:09:03 · answer #3 · answered by blueprairie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The 650,000 number was proved a lie. That number was put out by a terrorist propaganda organization or a Democrat group, such as Move On. Org. No one knows for sure as each one supports the other.
IT WAS A LIE.
But have you noticed how many foreigners and democrats on Yahoo, are still quoting that number?
They know by now that it's a lie, but they still use it.
An old commie trick.
2006-12-02 11:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Good question. 650,000 equals 2.5% of Iraq's population and I have yet too see any valid source for that figure.
I was in Iraq for 18 months and never heard numbers any where new that mentioned.
2006-12-02 10:57:48 · answer #5 · answered by iraq51 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
1 or 650,000, its still too high. We could have paid Saddam 650million and he would have moved away to the Bahamas. Then We could have put a friendly Dictator in, and bought oil again. It worked in Japan, it worked in Germany, it worked in Vietnam, it worked in Guyana, it worked in Panama, it worked in Haiti.
2006-12-02 11:05:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I'm fairly certain it's from a John Hopkins "study".
I personally don't buy it either.
2006-12-02 10:57:30 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is based on an average of how many die daily.Yes it is a rough estimate but still it is somewhere around that number.
2006-12-02 11:29:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
does it really matter how many are dead? The war is already so brutal, what evil person would create such a thing. goddamn all the people who started killing all those mothers and childre
2006-12-02 11:02:55 · answer #9 · answered by Jota 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
From whiney muslim baathists that are mad they are no longer in power in Iraq.
2006-12-02 11:19:10 · answer #10 · answered by pedohunter1488 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋