Thursday, October 28, 2004
Documenting the Iraqi Horror
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The AP, quoting from a study done for the medical journal, The Lancet.
AP: Scientists Estimate 100,000 Iraqi Deaths
100,000 dead.
WITHOUT counting Fallujah.
That's .4% of the entire country.
To pick up an idea of Juan Cole's, and to translate that into an American ratio, that's the equivalent of 1.2 MILLION American lives lost, in terms of percentage of that country's population.
Again, that's WITHOUT counting Fallujah. Add in perhaps thousands of additional women and children, and you have a catastrophe the likes of which the world has never seen.
posted by Gotham 1:37 PM
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