HOW many IRAQIS are DEAD?

Question

We've heard the Lancet figures of 600,000. Last week Cindy upped them to 700,000. So, what's the real figure? Was the study right?

A new statistical analysis of the 2004 study authored by David Kane, Institute Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University provides insight. What's your take on it?

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/25/document-drop-a-new-critique-of-the-2004-lancet-iraq-death-toll-study/

Read the link, the answer is there

The study was BS. Not more than 98k (at the time the study was done).

Petey, respond to the Harvard study.

Petey, good enough nonetheless. I suppose the left just multiplies by ten to get their estimates.

yahwho_sucks_balls8, a) if it sucks, stop using it; b) you're obviously ignorant.

Answer 1

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

its a London based organization where they cross check news reports and estimate the civilian death count.

Answer 2

The real question is how many excess Iraqis deaths are attributable to the US presence in Iraq. Under Saddam, the Iraqi census shows a decrease from 106 to 99 men per 100 women between 1987 and 1997. The census numbers imply that Saddam killed approximately 444,000 more males than females in that decade.

The Lancet study is based on a series of assumptions. The Lancet study used a subjective interview method and a very limited sample size both numerically and geographically to extrapolate a national mortality rate. There is a lot of uncertainty in the Lancet estimates, particularly the pre-invasion numbers. It is within the range of possibility that the US invasion resulted in a net decrease in the mortality rate as compared to the mortality rate under Saddam's regime. What ever the true number is, the mortality rate is clearly too high and one can only feel empathy for the Iraqi people and wish peace for them.

Data from a comprehensive Iraqi census would provide evidence to either confirm or refute the estimates in the Lancet paper. I find it perplexing that the US authorities would push for a census to support democracy in Iraq if such a census would also provide concrete evidence of a very high mortality rate attributable to US actions.

Answer 3

The world will never know how many Iraqis died in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, in part because the United States adamantly refuses to estimate the number of people it kills in combat and because gathering accurate numbers is all but impossible after the Iraqi government's chaotic collapse.

Answer 4

Who knows?

Given the situation in Iraq, it is very difficult to get a good body count of exactly how many are dead, displaced, and wounded.

Also, pretty much everyone there has suffered some psychological wounds (even the insurgency - although the Bush administration would have us believe otherwise).

I should point out that you shouldn't rely on the press - they can only count the dead reported, not the dead that have been silently killed.

Also, the US army no longer does body counts.

Answer 5

Ms Malkin always does a great job proving her point.

Bottom line is no one knows the exact total, but it is nowhere near the totals spouted off by the lib/lefties

Answer 6

estimates where available for Bush ,before he committed troops to the destruction of the country.lets just say,you don,t know,,as that's what the plan is,,,deception..chow

Answer 7

I do not know. I do know that most of them died at the hands of the terrorists. Maybe we should just leave and let them finish the job.

Answer 8

I heard in may on the view it was 650,000

Answer 9

NOT ENOUGH!

LESS THAN 60,000

Answer 10

not enough.