A Reminder: The Lancet Found Iraqis 58 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE Under Bush

[DistressedAmerican]

than under Saddam.
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I was just thinking about the now famous study that found 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the US invasion. I also remembered a stat that I found far more startling amid claims that the Iraqi people are far better off now than they were under Saddam.

The Lancet found this far from the truth. They found that Iraqi civilians are 58 times more likely to die a violent death now than they were under their brutal dictator.

Saddam couldn't begin to kill Iraqis at the rate being accomplished by George Bush!

Can anyone argue that these people are better off?

Immediate Withdrawal! Immediate Withdrawal! Immediate Withdrawal! Immediate Withdrawal! Immediate Withdrawal!
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3962969.stm

-SNIP-
Iraq death toll 'soared post-war'
Iraqis are now 58 times more likely to die a violent death, Lancet

Poor planning, air strikes by coalition forces and a "climate of violence" have led to more than 100,000 extra deaths in Iraq, scientists claim.

A study published by the Lancet says the risk of death by violence for civilians in Iraq is now 58 times higher than before the US-led invasion.

Unofficial estimates of civilian deaths had varied from 10,000 to over 37,000.
-END SNIP-

WAR CRIMINALS!

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Bush just wants them all to be

brain-dead and on feeding tubes before he will give a shit.

[G_j]

2. War on Iraq Has Doubled Malnutrition Among Iraqi Children

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0331-08.htm

Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the Associated Press

UN Monitor: War on Iraq Has Doubled Malnutrition Among Iraqi Children

GENEVA -- The war in Iraq and its aftermath have almost doubled malnutrition rates among Iraqi children, a UN specialist on hunger has told the world's major human rights body.

Acute malnutrition rates among Iraqi children under five rose late last year to 7.7 per cent from four per cent after the ouster of President Saddam Hussein in April 2003, said Jean Ziegler, the UN Human Rights Commission's special expert on the right to food.

Malnutrition, which is exacerbated by a lack of clean water and inadequate sanitation, is a major child-killer in poor countries. Children who manage to survive are usually physically and mentally impaired for the rest of their lives and more vulnerable to disease.

Acute malnutrition signifies a child is actually wasting away
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1457436,00.html

Let them eat bombs

The doubling of child malnutrition in Iraq is baffling

Terry Jones
Tuesday April 12, 2005
The Guardian

(Terry Jones is a film director, actor and Python. He is the author of Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror)

A report to the UN human rights commission in Geneva has concluded that Iraqi children were actually better off under Saddam Hussein than they are now.

This, of course, comes as a bitter blow for all those of us who, like George Bush and Tony Blair, honestly believe that children thrive best when we drop bombs on them from a great height, destroy their cities and blow up hospitals, schools and power stations.

It now appears that, far from improving the quality of life for Iraqi youngsters, the US-led military assault on Iraq has inexplicably doubled the number of children under five suffering from malnutrition. Under Saddam, about 4% of children under five were going hungry, whereas by the end of last year almost 8% were suffering.

These results are even more disheartening for those of us in the Department of Making Things Better for Children in the Middle East By Military Force, since the previous attempts by Britain and America to improve the lot of Iraqi children also proved disappointing. For example, the policy of applying the most draconian sanctions in living memory totally failed to improve conditions. After they were imposed in 1990, the number of children under five who died increased by a factor of six. By 1995 something like half a million Iraqi children were dead as a result of our efforts to help them.

..more..

[DistressedAmerican]

4. Americans Are Blind To Misery! It Sickens Me!

The American lifestyle somehow puts blinders on us that prevent us from looking away from our televisions long enough to see childern starving!

Did this country ever care? Have we lost our humanity or is our nation's history one long story of indifference to suffering?

[leftchick]

11. it won't be a "bitter blow" for blair and bush**

they will ignore it as they have ignored ALL of the facts pre and post invasion. :banghead:

[bvar22]

3. Recommended for Greatest!

*

[DistressedAmerican]

5. Thanks. But, YOU Are The GREATEST!

:woohoo:

[indepat]

6. The fifty-eight-fold risk of dying a violent death is such a small price

for Iraqis to pay for enjoying the fruits of freedom, liberty, and democracy.

[DistressedAmerican]

7. Don't Forget Security!

[soup]

8. 58

"I heard that the US military had purchased 1,500,000,000 bullets for use in the coming year. That is fifty-eight bullets for every Iraqi adult and child."


credit to DUer liberalla's post on GEO55's thread:

What I Heard About Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x120038

and the origin of the quote:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0416-20.htm

[DrDebug]

9. Talk about overkill

They are there to spread democracy and freedom. But it seems it's the ultimate freedom - the seperation of body and mind - which they are sowing

[DistressedAmerican]

10. Creepy! Planning or Coincidence?

[soup]

12. not sure, but I got a chill

and the theme song to the Twilight Zone was hanging in the air when I saw your thread.

58. They have to feel so much safer now.

I'd cry, but once started, am afraid I wouldn't stop.

[Robeysays]

21. sounds like an invasion coming up???

iran maybe or syria

[DistressedAmerican]

13. Afternoon kick!

[BringEmOn]

14. 58 times more likely to end up in a mass grave

under this ruthless dictator.

[EFerrari]

15. I wonder what the Lancet would say about us.

We're saying, "Mission NOT Accomplished!"

www.missionnotaccomplished.us

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3476986

[DistressedAmerican]

16. Awesome Effort You've Got There. It Sure As Hell Isn't!

I'll Be Out As Well. Do Not Let Them Forget! Here's My Commemoration From The One Year Anniversary:

[EFerrari]

17. It's hard to believe this THING is in the WH. Great signs! n/t

[DistressedAmerican]

18. I Still Find Myself Stupefied At The Thought He Didn't Get Thrown Out!

I was expecting the storming of the freaking Bastile on Nov. 2 and here we are with 4 more years. Literally can not wrap my brain around it!

[EFerrari]

19. Yeah. Socked right in the gut. I think they stole it.

But, the up side is, they pretend they didn't so they also have to pretend that our wishes matter.

Whoopi Goldberg's junkie character, "Fontaine" has a great line: "M*therf#cker, I have BEEN in your pocketbook and I KNOW where you live."

We know where they live. :hi:

[DistressedAmerican]

20. Kick!

[DistressedAmerican]

22. Kick!

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. We should start a "return Saddam!" movement.

Think of the children!

How about Saddam as an independent candidate in the next election? His track record for feeding children trashes Bush's! How wonderfully embarassing that would be.

Someone start a Saddam versus Bush chart, I wonder how funny Bush would look next to the dictator. Both killed the people under their power ("Don't kill me!" mocked Bush).

[dbt]

24. Kick for EXTRA DEATHS!

OK, what the FUCK is an "extra death?" Is it what you get when you supersize your order??? "Would you like EXTRA DEATH with that?"

[DistressedAmerican]

26. I Thought It Was Very Strange Phraseology Myself.

I guess it implies unnecessesary deaths. Which begs the question what are the necessesary deaths...

[Frederik]

25. Kick!

Very important information. God, how this was downplayed when it was published last year.