Iraqi Civilian Deaths - Can someone help me out?

[silverlib]

I've heard that 1 in 8 families in Iraq now have at least one family member that has been killed by an American, as many as were killed by Saddam.

I can't search the archives - too much traffic and I can't find my source. The latest thing I can find on Google is from 2004 - 128,000.

Anybody else remember this and does anyone have a source?

[populistdriven]

1. lookup the lancet article that showed 100,000 - 200,000 dead

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6596

The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by coalition forces has lead to the death of at least 100,000 civilians, reveals the first scientific study to examine the issue.

The majority of these deaths, which are in addition those normally expected from natural causes, illness and accidents, have been among women and children, finds the study, released early by The Lancet on Thursday.

The most common cause of death is as a direct result of violence, mostly caused by coalition air strikes, reveals the study of almost 1000 households scattered across Iraq. And the risk of violent death just after the invasion was 58 times greater than before the war. The overall risk of death was 1.5 times more after the invasion than before.

The figure of 100,000 – estimated by extrapolating the surveyed households’ death toll to the whole population - is based on "conservative assumptions", notes Les Roberts at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, US, who led the study.

That estimate excludes Falluja, a hotspot for violence. If the data from this town is included, the study points to about 200,000 excess deaths since the outbreak of war.....

[silverlib]

2. Thank you - but what about since October of 2004

I spoke of this tonight with a group of conservatives and I desparately need to back up my statement.

This is really a great article from a good source - better than the one from the Washington Post I found from 2004.

thanks again.

[jaxx]

3. This is way short of those counts.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

I wonder if we'll ever know how many innocent Iraqi's have died in this rotten war?