Poll: Civilian death toll in Iraq may top 1 million

[babylonsister]

Poll: Civilian death toll in Iraq may top 1 million

A British survey offers the highest estimate to date. At least 4 die in a Sadr City car bombing.
By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 14, 2007

BAGHDAD -- -- A car bomb blew up in the capital's Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sadr City on Thursday, killing at least four people, as a new survey suggested that the civilian death toll from the war could be more than 1 million.

The figure from ORB, a British polling agency that has conducted several surveys in Iraq, followed statements this week from the U.S. military defending itself against accusations it was trying to play down Iraqi deaths to make its strategy appear successful.

The military has said civilian deaths from sectarian violence have fallen more than 55% since President Bush sent an additional 28,500 troops to Iraq this year, but it does not provide specific numbers.

According to the ORB poll, a survey of 1,461 adults suggested that the total number slain during more than four years of war was more than 1.2 million.

ORB said it drew its conclusion from responses to the question about those living under one roof: "How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003?"

Based on Iraq's estimated number of households -- 4,050,597 -- it said the 1.2 million figure was reasonable.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-iraq14sep14,1,1207545.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=2&cset=true

[bdamomma]

1. crimes against humanity

that is what this scumbag * is committing with his other thugs.

[sibelian]

2. Didn't Anne Coulter want an apology for that figure at the beginning of the War?

I do strongly recall that she wanted an apology for something like a million casualties as a prediction.

[Double T]

3. Another crowning achievement of the bushco adminisration............

those are numbers even Prescott Bush would be proud of. America lives in infamy because of our two heinous 'leaders' in the WH.

[npincus]

4. B*shis a more efficient killer than Saddam ever was

Mission accomplished!

[ck4829]

5. Of course, some people will say that it is false

Needless to say, it will be the same people who have gulped up everything the Bush Administration had to say about Iraq since day 1.

[malaise]

6. That's success to the greatest

war criminal and his goons. Fucking murderers.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. & there are flame threads when someone dares to say that Shrub is as bad as Hitler?

With his fucking lies he has the blood of more on his hands than Hitler did in the same amount of time.
:grr:

[leave iraq]

8. dont forget about the 500,000 Clinton killed with the sanctions

and those were ALL children

" asserting that sanctions were responsible for the deaths of 567,000 Iraqi children. "


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011203/cortright

[babylonsister]

9. Don't worry, we won't. And thanks for your concern. nt