Health experts rap US, UK over counting Iraqi dead

[ckramer]

Public health experts criticised the United States and Britain on Friday for failing to record the number of Iraqi civilians killed since the U.S.-led invasion and called for an independent inquiry.

"We believe that the joint U.S./UK failure to make any effort to monitor Iraqi casualties is ... wholly irresponsible," they said in a statement published online by the British Medical Journal.

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[skylarmae]

1. well its high time that someone starts bitching about this except us!

(I'm sure we're not the only ones) The more voices in this regard, the more correct information we might be able to glean, thusly able to get a better idea what is going on over there. Exactly how much damage we've done.....

[leftchick]

2. at least 100,000 DEAD. The Lancet did a study...

but didn't you know Michael Jackson is much more important??
:puke:


http://www.redglobe.de/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=3312

100,000 Dead In Iraq.
A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
The British medical journal The Lancet has published the first scientific study of the human cost of the war on Iraq. The study has found that at least 100,000 Iraqis have lost their lives since the US, backed by Britain and Australia, launched their invasion in March last year. The revelation of this horrifying body count confirms that the leaders of those countries – George W Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard – have committed a crime against humanity.

More than half the dead are women and children, mostly killed by coalition air strikes. The US is now preparing to perpetrate more death and carnage with major assaults on the cities of Falluja and Ramadi following the US elections, which will add to the growing civilian death toll.

The study was carried out by public health experts from the US and Iraq with a survey of 1000 households in 33 randomly selected neighbourhoods around the country.

The Lancet called the research “a remarkable piece of work by a courageous team of scientists”.

One member of the survey team was Les Roberts, of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins University in the US state of Maryland. “Making conservative assumptions, we think about 100,000 excess deaths or more happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq”, he said. Official estimates have persistently placed the number of dead at around 10,000.