According to a new study, 1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since the 2003 invasion, the highest estimate of war-related fatalities yet. The study was done by the British polling firm ORB, which conducted face-to-face interviews with a sample of over 1,700 Iraqi adults in 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces. Two provinces -- al-Anbar and Karbala -- were too dangerous to canvas, and officials in a third, Irbil, didn't give the researchers a permit to do their work. The study's margin of error was plus-minus 2.4 percent.
Field workers asked residents how many members of their own household had been killed since the invasion. More than one in five respondents said that at least one person in their home had been murdered since March of 2003. One in three Iraqis also said that at least some neighbors "actually living on [their] street" had fled the carnage, with around half of those having left the country.
In Baghdad, almost half of those interviewed reported at least one violent death in their household.
If you voted for Bush this blood is on your hands.
Remember that Saddam may have killed many of his own people, but those deaths were not as a result of Americans. These deaths are the direct result of a war that should never have happened.
Every one of us should be shamed by this, because it was done in our name.
And the only question remaining is"what are we going to do about it?"
I am very ashamed of this...all of it...I wish there was Something that each and every one of us could do....calling up Repug reps and trying to leave messeges seem rather lame...
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