Prisjämförelser 100.000 civila dödsoffer i Irak ?
Den britiska medicinska tidskriften The Lancet har rapporterat att omkring 100.000 irakiska civila har
har dödats under ockupationen., främst genom flygangrepp. Även om den exakta siffran är mycket svår att beräkna så håller Irak-kriget snabbt på att bli en katastrof för hela det irakiska folket.
The startling news that some 100,000 people, nearly all of them Iraqi civilians, have been killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003 should give Americans pause when considering the costs of the war. Until now, the official line from Washington has been that “we don’t count” Iraqis killed, only American soldiers killed. That total, more than 1,000, is bad enough. With this new scientific estimate, the consequences of this misbegotten war should be front-and-center in the coming days.
What is likely to cause considerable rancor in this new estimate is that most of the deaths reported were from U.S. bombing — nearly 80 percent — and not as a result of the insurgency. This scale of destruction is on par with the war in Vietnam.
