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Originally Posted by MerlinX";p="
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Originally Posted by rwspin";p="
Let's not leave out the 10,000 - 13,000 innocent Iraqis that we slaughtered ...er, I mean freed.
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Would you please list your source for those figures? I was looking for this recently and had a difficult time finding reliable, unbiased information.
For example I found a site called www.iraqbodycount.org, but it's run by 2 British anti-war activists, so the information is most likely suspect because of their agenda.
Then of course there's Aljazeera, which says it is "100% sure that 37,000 civilian deaths is a correct estimate."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...4C323A777F.htm
Though how an "estimate" can be 100% sure, I'll never know.
Anyway, please share your source - I would like to see some accurate numbers on this. |
You've listed two sources whose figures range from 11,000 to 37,000. Here's another one that says 8700 to 10,000 :
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0331/p15s01-wogi.html
I don't know what you would consider a "reliable" source. Since our government either doesn't care (gen. Tommy Franks: "We don't do body counts") or is hiding their figures (more likely), we have to rely on third parties. I wouldn't necessarily discount an anti-war group's estimate - it wouldn't be in their best interest to risk losing credibility by proviiding grossly inflated figures. Furthermore, apparently a certain degree of doubt about the validity of at least THIS war is somewhat of a prerequisite for being interested in undertaking an investigation in the first place.
Obviously no single source is ever going to be 100% reliable. I just arrived at 10-13k based on everything I've read over the past few months.