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Originally Posted by troutman
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
This is an ongoing human security project which maintains and updates the world’s only independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention by the USA and its allies. The count includes civilian deaths caused by coalition military action and by military or paramilitary responses to the coalition presence (e.g. insurgent and terrorist attacks). It also includes excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion.
min 43850 max 48693
U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ:2754
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ:20468
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Yeah, but that only takes into account the media-reported deaths. With the chaos going on over there I'm sure every dead civilian doesn't get into the paper.
I doubt this 650 thousand number as well though.
A few weeks ago on Bill Maher a guest (some activist-type celebrity, I can't remember who) referred to "130 thousand dead civilians" two or three times and nobody challenged that number. Maher and whatever Republican they had on there just let it go like it was a given.