The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say.
A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000.
Just Foreign Policy, an independent organisation “dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign policy” offered an updated total of 1,213,716 at the time of this writing.
On Sep. 14, 2007, Opinion Research Business (ORB), an independent polling agency located in London, produced a figure of 1,220,580 deaths as a result of the invasion.
These estimates are above any official figures from Iraq, but they do consider the reported official figures.
Iraqis believe that the authorities are hiding these figures. “The U.S. military benefits from hiding the real totals,” said a political analyst who declined to give his name because of the atmosphere of fear within Iraq. “And the Iraqi government is a puppet of the Americans, so their figures are ridiculously low as well.”
No matter how anybody tries to justify this criminal war, there is no way to justify over a million dead Iraqi's. These are not soldiers. These are fathers, uncles, sons, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and cousins, most of these are simply innocent Iraqis who had the misfortune of living on top of a giant pool of oil.
When the Democrats get control of this government back they need to launch a real investigation into this war. How it started. The REAL reason for it. How it was conducted. How it was sold to the American people. Everything must be investigated.
As Americans I think we deserve to know the truth.
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