Hate to quote Rosie (Don't like her much) but last week she said over 600,000 civilians have died. Is this true?????
2007-05-31 02:27:14 · 14 answers · asked by Triumph 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No - the figure, from a Johns Hopkins study, has been roundly criticized.
30,000 to 50,000 is probably a more reliable figure.
A horrifically large number, but most probably smaller than the toll for a comparable period during Saddam's reign. Back then, there were mass executions, starvation, etc. to contend with.
People said the "US sanctions" - Saddam's misuse of the oil for food money - was starving huge numbers of Iraqis every month. So that catastrophe no longer exists. Health care is much better.
But far too many Iraqis are being shot and blown up, by terrorists and sectarian militias.
2007-05-31 02:36:34 · answer #1 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The truth is that there is no way of accurately knowing exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died because there is no real way to count it. The reports are spotty at best, and there is no real statistical coordination in Iraq. That is why you see wildly ranging numbers, between 60,000 and over several million.
Plus, there is the problem of defining a "civilian". Generally civilian deaths refers to those who were not participating in the fighting, or what the military refers to as collateral damage. However, because of the nature of the conflict, it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate between innocents and terrorists/insurgents. If a militia member is killed, are they civilians? How about the Iraqi police? What about insurgents? Drawing the line of demarcation as to what is and is not a civilian becomes difficult when the traditional model of fighting a war breaks down. Unfortunately, it is just too difficult to really put a number on it, and expect any degree of accuracy.
However, with that said, this is the figure I got from Wikipedia 62,841 - 68,868. Nowhere near what Rosie said.
But who can be surprised by this. Rosie has an agenda, and if she needs to take the most outrageously high figure to justify her outrageous agenda, then it is to be expected that she would do just that.
"A new statistic proves that 73% of all statistics are pure inventions"
-Anonymous
2007-05-31 02:47:26 · answer #2 · answered by Schaufel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
completely false.
Investor's Business Daily reported this week that other, independent researchers put the actual figure at about 1/10th of those numbers.
To cite just one error in the 'study' that came up with 600,000 -- the study's baseline [pre-2002] death rate was about 1/2 that of western Europe per 100,000 persons over age 1. This is obviously drivel.
Which rather suggests that the public figures who continue to cite the nonsense study either aren't too bright or are willing to lie as much as it takes to change public policy [seize control of the country].
your choice as to which.
:-)
2007-05-31 02:38:56 · answer #3 · answered by Spock (rhp) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 600K figure isn't one that Rosie made up. It's from a report released last fall. I think Johns Hopkins conducted. I think the count seems high but the methodology they used was endorsed by John Zogby of Zogby international, and Zogby polls are generally pretty accurate.
2007-05-31 02:32:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one knows for sure....but what does this have to do with my stocks in Halliburton and KBR?
War is a business...who cares if a couple of million get killed...I am an American ..I needa new SUV to tow behind my RV
He gotta go......my golf cart is running
2007-05-31 02:31:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
in accordance to the information today on google there have been 34.000 thousand Iraqis killed in 2006 .common i does no longer have a clue.only checked wikipedia they declare up too sixty 5.000 simply by fact the conflict began.
2016-10-09 04:42:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The number vaires depending on who you talk to according to bodycount.net they are put the number closer to 60,000.
Rosie doesn't have a grip on reality and has proven it on the view.
2007-05-31 02:31:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. If Rosie said it, it is true. After all, she IS on TV...
2007-05-31 02:34:37 · answer #8 · answered by nom de paix 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. She got that stat from moveon.org. Did you care about the Iraqis when Saddam was the one killing them?
2007-05-31 02:30:16 · answer #9 · answered by NONAME 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably so, but its the insurgents that are killing them, so you would probably get more accurate numbers from the terrorist.
2007-05-31 02:30:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋