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Iraq Figures

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  • 15-02-2004 2:14pm
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    Christian
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    I know the first thing that pops into your head when you read this is "Lazy bastard, just use google" well Ive tried and with no great succes, maybe "stupid basterd" would be more fitting.

    Anyway I was just hoping somebody could give me up to date figures on the death toll in Iraq since the war began. What Im really interested is cizilian,allied and iraqi resistance and if at all posible divided in to before and after Bush said the war is over.
    Thanks a million to anybody who can help me.


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    ykt0di9url7bc3
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    Iraq Bodycount

    Here you go, enjoy


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    Sand
    Registered Users Posts: 12,580 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    Iraq Body Count is a good site, so youre sorted there. Also related might be The Iraq Action Group however a lot of links they quote from dont seem to work but a bit of googling should hopefully find the source.

    To help out I tried looking for the document for this one
    "4,500 children under the age of 5 are dying each month from hunger and disease. The situation is disastrous for children. Many are living on the very margin of survival." -- UNICEF, October 1996.

    It looks like unicefs digitised documents and press releases only go back as far as 1999. Googling the above quote gets you a scary number of hits though, who are also quoting it. Most are political pamphlets and so and thus not trustworthy. A couple of the more believable ones are

    http://www.doctorsworldwide.org/projects/iraq.htm

    http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/opinion.asp?ArticleID=30402

    Looking through the links I saw claims that up to 1.2 million people including 750,000 children were killed by the imposition of sanctions and their continued enforcement prior to the war. I dont know how accurate that is.


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    Sparks
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    Medact report on Iraqi casualties to date.


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    DadaKopf
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    This was a prominent document in the lead-up to the war, predicting the potential effects on civilian mortality of a full-scale war, both in theatre and post-conflict. And here's a reply to the leaked UN document.

    And this is an amazing in-depth study of the effect of sanctions and Saddam's regime on post-1991 war Iraq. The importance of this article is that he links infant mortality directly to a general situation vis-a-vis Gulf War I because child mortality (children being dependents) are reliable indicators of the effects of war and sanctions on the general population in terms of health and quality of life.

    Sorry I couldn't dig up more recent figures for post-2003 Iraq war, but I don't have time.


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    Christian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭Christian


    Cheers!



    Ps Sand why do you have a sig about someone accussing you of sulking?


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    Sand
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    Ps Sand why do you have a sig about someone accussing you of sulking?

    I laughed when I read it. Seemed quoteworthy to me at least.


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    Christian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭Christian


    Interesting Quotes

    "Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish. Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries"
    "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."-
    George Bernard Shaw

    "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. "
    "I can't get the images I need for my project!".
    "My project"? I've never heard **** referred to in this manner before" - Perry Rovers quoting a luser
    "A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine"


    "NASA uses Windows? Oh great. If Apollo 13 went off course today the manual would just tell them to open the airlock, flush the astronauts out, and re-install new ones" – Kibo
    Everything that can be invented has been invented."
    --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
    1899.
    "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
    --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
    This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
    considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently
    of no value to us."
    --Western Union internal memo, 1876.

    "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
    --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of
    science, 1949

    "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
    --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

    "By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root. I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no ####### joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are ###### and you are ####### us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your ####### soul" - Bill Hicks


    Just some of my favourites!


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