Blair challenged to tally Iraq war dead

[Moloch]

LONDON (Reuters) - Diplomats and peers have joined scientists and churchmen to urge Prime Minister Tony Blair to publish a death toll in the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

In an unusual open letter to the premier made available to Reuters, the 44 signatories said Blair had rejected other death counts from the war -- figures span 14,000 to 100,000 -- without releasing one of his own.

Any totalling of the Iraqi war dead could embarrass Blair ahead of a general election expected in months in a country that opposed the U.S.-led war.

The group urged Blair to commission an urgent probe into the number of dead and injured and keep counting so long as British soldiers remain in Iraq alongside their American allies.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041208/325/f84b2.html

[ooglymoogly]

1. now we are talking

how about a little truth, and a little lets get real.

[AP]

2. What might also be helpful would be a list of the Iraqis in and around

Basra who would be dead if the US rather than the UK were running the show there.

[whistle]

3. The death toll of Iraqi's may never be accurately reported...

...but I am willing to wager that is is easily 200,000 or more. The total population in Iraq at one time approached 30 million before the Bush I's Gulf War, but then dropped to 22 million by the 1998. Then the population began to surge as fertility increased to 5.7 children per female Iraqi and population began to grow at 2.8% per year.

When the Bush II began his war last year the population had shrink to a little over 25 million. I am certain that several hundred thousand Iraqis, mostly the very old, undernourished children and women whose stressed bodies have made them vulnerable, have died of starvation and disease as well as being killed in battles that have made no distinction between civilians and combatants. This war has been about genocide and ethnic cleansing as well as control of the oil resources in Iraq.

<link> http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1088/MR1088.chap3.pdf

[meti57b]

4. hey, hey, U.S. and U.K,..... how many kids did we kill today?!

[MaineDem]

5. Kick

We could ask the same of George and his gang.