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Iraqi Deaths

Since the 2003 U.S. led invasion into Iraq around 655,000 Iraqis have died. That figure is almost 2.5% of the Iraqi population. Bush said that although this is a large number not many of them are innocent civilians. Although nearly 60% were men and boys between the ages of 15 and 44 and 31% contributed deaths to coalition forces which leads me to the believe many of these deathes are from war, or fighting back. The cause of the deaths is car bombs and gunfire but the majority being gunfire. Relating something that we learned in class the death rate has rose to 13.3 per 1000 people per year from 5.5 per 1000 which is a considerable increase. Supposedly the body count is around 50,000 for civilians but I found this hard to believe considering the magnitude of the number.

What do you think all think about this? This is just another reason why we shouldn't have been in the war I believe. For more information click the link above.

posted by Anonymous @ 10/11/2006 09:24:00 PM