In a scientific study published last fall in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, researchers from Johns Hopkins estimated that 650,000 Iraqis had died because of our government’s invasion of their country. The survey that produced that estimate was completed in July, 2006. That was a year ago.
Unfortunately, despite the calls of the Lancet authors for other studies, there has been no systematic effort to update these results.
Just Foreign Policy has attempted to update the Lancet estimate in the best way we know. We have extrapolated from the Lancet estimate, using the trend provided by the tally of Iraqi deaths reported in Western media compiled by Iraq Body Count. Our current estimate is that 974,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion. The web counter and fuller explanation are here.
The Iraqi death toll resulting from the U.S. invasion is a key fact. We cannot make intelligent and moral choices about U.S. foreign policy while ignoring such a key fact. It has implications for our choices in Iraq, for our choices in dealing with Iran, for our choices about the size of the U.S. military (for why do our leaders want to expand the U.S. military, except to have the capacity to invade other countries?)
7 comments:
First step in creating their 'New Jerusalem'.
The Krazy Kristians think that will be between a river in Iraq, and a river in Egypt. The big picture 'Promised Land'.
Course all the Jews will be killed in their scenario, and the little remnant converted to ...Bingo~!~ Kristianity. Ha ha.
So... are they crazy ? You bet your ass they are.
More trouble that dwarfs this trouble ahead.
skip sievert said...
"The Krazy Kristians think that will be between a river in Iraq, and a river in Egypt. The big picture 'Promised Land'."
interesting ...
The "Krazy Kristians".
The secular fundamentalists Christian slur du jour.
Skip, did .. the Christians" ... get together and tell you this is what "Christians think"?
Well, how do you know "what Christians think"?
Oh, I see. The "Christians" you see on television tell you ... that's "what Christians think".
You fanatical "Secular Humanists" believe anything your NeoLiberal Mullahs tell you to think.
Right now secular atheist warmongering murders are promoting the notion that a war engineered by Zionist Extremist NeoCons is really the will of "Christians".
Satanic irony?
Blaming this "War of Terror" on God loving Christians and Muslims is a Secular Atheist warmongering trick.
The Left is as guilty as the Right.
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There is an implied reference to religious dogmas, and it is just here that one can see the source of the misunderstanding.
Most religions feature a multiplicity of dogmas.
A person who is an adherent of that religion may not necessarily believe each and every one of the dogmas. Beliefs cannot of course be chosen a la carte - but there is a degree of flexibility which can accommodate quite significant differences.
The law of conservation of energy is not like this.
Science and Religion are entirely different concepts.
It states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant, although it may change forms, into heat or kinetic energy for example.
In short, law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Denying its validity would undermine not just little bits of science - the whole edifice would be no more. All of the technology on which we built the modern world would lie in ruins.
There is no flexibility in the acceptance of the law as true - at all times, and in all circumstances.
It is the failure to appreciate the difference between this scientific law and a law of religion or of society which is why we know that religion whether it be of what ever type is not 'true' but man made.
Thus bigotry ensues because of the belief in fake truth.
"Blaming this "War of Terror" on God loving Christians and Muslims is a Secular Atheist warmongering trick."
Ha ha, you are not kidding I know, you really 'believe'.
The whole Christian Muslim shit is just that. Shit. Propaganda invented to control people.
My favorite definition of god ?
Thats dog spelled backward, and thats a son of a bitch, and thats what we all are. Sons of Bitches.
Ha.
Think about it. Are you in good company with Bush and Cheney?
They are 'believers', as are the NEO CONS.
Understand Grasshopper,
"Science", just like "Secularism", just like "Humanism" ultimately is a religion too.
It is just another euphemistic name for the secular religion that worships Man instead of God.
Only that which "man" can comprehend is real.
As the spiritual component of the secularist inevitably atrophies, they become desperate to prove the soul does not exist.
Only in your mind...
Explain the 'soul' to the dead guy lying in the street there.
You have been flimflammed, with holey bullshit.
Some preacher jerked your chain long enough and cleverly enough to put you under the Hoodoo Voodoo spell.
Do you believe in heaven and is that where the soul goes to also ?
Re read the last post I made and put on your thinking cap.
Science and Religion are antithetical
Worships god ?
Ha ha thats a good one.
Your brain washed.
Our concept of god comes from Babylon.
God was made up to get people working and obeying.
Also to get them to turn their guilt inward, instead of telling it like it is.
Skip.
The Neoliberal Secular Mullah's have your head all messed up.
You are a member of a cult you don't even know exists.
LOL.
I don`t think so.
You do not get it.
Science and Religion are like oil and water.
You prefer one, I prefer the other.
So be it.
Your wrong though.
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