100,000 civilians have died from Iraq War

[davhill]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/iraq_toll_civilians

PARIS (AFP) - Around 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), more than half of them from violence, according to an estimate to be published on Friday by the British medical weekly The Lancet.

The research, based on interviews among Iraqi households and an extrapolation of the data, was led by experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, in the US state of Maryland.

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," the authors said.

"Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths."

That's a figure that should get the attention of those who still call Bush the "pro-life" candidate.

[BayStateBoy]

1. That Fact Should Electrify the Fundies

Nothing better than killing for Christ. We've been doing it since before the Crusades.

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