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Originally posted by transplant99@Oct 29 2004, 05:15 AM
Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq
There is NO evidence beyond what this group "thinks" and "assumes", that these numbers are anyting close to reality. They say so themselves.
I would be willing to bet that this number is WAY lower than what is suggested. Not that it makes the loss of life any less terrible, but this is the kind of "reporting" that so many clobber other media sources for, and call it "government controlled garbage, that doesnt tell the real story".
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So give it a very unlikely margin of error, say 90 percent. That's still 10,000 people!! Imagine what the US would do if half that were slain at home. Hell even if the right would say "we need more troops on the ground so that we can be more precise and not bomb from 30,000 feet" that would be better. If that raises the draft issue, who cares, the whole of the US seems to agree with the war, they should be putting their money where their mouths are.