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Showing Original Post only (View all)Report Shows US Invasion, Occupation of Iraq Left 1 Million Dead [View all]
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/30164-report-shows-us-invasion-occupation-of-iraq-left-1-million-deadA recently published report has revealed that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1 million Iraqis, which is 5 percent of the total population of the country. The report also tallies hundreds of thousands of casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Authors of the report, titled "Body Count: Casualty Figures After 10 Years of the 'War on Terror,'" have told Truthout that other casualty reports, like the often-quoted Iraq Body Count (IBC), which has a high-end estimate at the time of this writing of 154,563, are far too low in their estimates, and that the real numbers reach "genocidal dimensions."
The report states that, in addition to the deaths in Iraq, an estimated 220,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan as a result of US foreign policy. These findings come on the heels of a UN report that finds that civilian deaths in Afghanistan in 2014 were at their highest levels since the UN began producing reports on the topic in 2009.
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sinkingfeeling
Apr 2015
OP
Ralph Nader is irrelevant. He had the same right to run for President as Hillary does.
Autumn
Apr 2015
#22
What you're saying is that the Dem Party is so bad they can only produce one candidate, one which
sabrina 1
Apr 2015
#91
so we should ignore the truth so someone that voted for this doesn't have to answer for it?
marym625
Apr 2015
#56
Hillary voted for it, didn't she? One million human beings. We BEGGED Them not to do it. I will
sabrina 1
Apr 2015
#90
More people died of war time disease than bullets during the Civil War.
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2015
#61
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic. Stalin
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2015
#6
We need to remember that it was not just the government who was pushing for revenge. We the
jwirr
Apr 2015
#23
I to blame the media. They were the liars for the government. I honestly don't know how we could
jwirr
Apr 2015
#65
You don't have to point that out to me but at the time few even asked - it was just any one the
jwirr
Apr 2015
#66
Many of them are connected to Wall St. Many of them made a lot of money.
raouldukelives
Apr 2015
#43
Arrest and try the war criminals now or forever shut the FUCK up about how great America is
IHateTheGOP
Apr 2015
#35