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Iraqi Death Toll Tops 87,000 Since 2005

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Posted on Apr 23, 2009

Citing data obtained from an Iraqi government official, the Associated Press reported Thursday that 87,215 Iraqis have died due to violence since 2005—and that could even be a conservative figure.

AP via Mobile News Network:

Combined with tallies based on hospital sources and media reports since the beginning of the war and an in-depth review of available evidence by The Associated Press, the figures show that more than 110,600 Iraqis have died in violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The number is a minimum count of violent deaths. The official who provided the data to the AP, on condition of anonymity because of its sensitivity, estimated the actual number of deaths at 10 to 20 percent higher because of thousands who are still missing and civilians who were buried in the chaos of war without official records.

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By Blackspeare, April 27, 2009 at 8:10 am Link to this comment

What Fadel Abdallah fails to understand is that not only can you be a martyr for the Army of Allah, but also for the cause of “Democracy.”  Those Iraqis who have died in the “War on Terror” will be remembered as having made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of “Democracy!”

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By nick, April 25, 2009 at 9:58 am Link to this comment
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The numbers should go back to the first Gulf War and include the sanctions which alone have killed 50,000 CHILDREN a year. Thus: childhood deaths alone would account for almost 1 million dead.  A total of 3 million is more like it. And this misery doesn’t include the refugees. A Holocaust by any measure.

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By LostHills, April 24, 2009 at 5:34 pm Link to this comment

Suspend all combat operations immediately, Mr. Obama, and bring ALL Us forces home NOW.

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By Cecil, April 24, 2009 at 10:27 am Link to this comment
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Let’s not forget the future toll from depleted uranium’s everlasting half-life. The Iraq “War” is a nuclear war.

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By godistwaddle, April 24, 2009 at 2:19 am Link to this comment

I’m sure the figure is much higher.  The good: relatives and friends of the dead will resist the uber-capitalism, replete with cronies, that the U.S. tries to smear over the world.

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By Fadel Abdallah, April 23, 2009 at 7:44 pm Link to this comment

The title of this piece is misleading and manipulatively worded in three ways:

1. It’s based on suspected official count from 2005, as if the war in Iraq started in 2005 and not in 2003. The heaviest losses occurred in the first two years of the evil American invasion, and according to other more reliable sources the number exceeds the million point.
2. The AP report refers to victim of violence, as if violence is something that drops from heaven as rain, without associating this violence to real causes and perpetrators, which is the evil American invasion, based on lies and deception!
3. This so-called report does not even account for the millions who were either crippled physically or mentally for life, nor does it account for the millions who were displaced and made refugees and their livelihoods destroyed forever. In fact most of those miserable survivors would envy the dead and wish they were among them.

So here goes the spinning of the mainstream Western media trying to minimize a situation that should be called the Iraqi People Holocaust of the twenty-first century, perpetrated by the U.S. and its other Western allies in evil!

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