Reuben Gant Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Just noticed this story from Reuters which has a few different citations for the numbers of Iraqi's killed since the beginning of the war. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15901883-38201,00.html 39,000 seems reasonable to me, anyone else?
Reuben Gant Posted July 11, 2005 Author Posted July 11, 2005 AS compared to >100K A YEAR under Saddam. 379130[/snapback] Do you have a source for that one? just curious.
SilverNRed Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Almost 26,000 dead according to iraqbodycount.com. Link
Reuben Gant Posted July 11, 2005 Author Posted July 11, 2005 Almost 26,000 dead according to iraqbodycount.com. Link 379134[/snapback] that was quoted in the story as well. IBC was villified in the early going, but it turns out their methodology based an multiple sourcing is more conservative than the rest of the sources quoted.
KD in CA Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Two years ago they were telling us 500,000. What happened???
Reuben Gant Posted July 11, 2005 Author Posted July 11, 2005 Two years ago they were telling us 500,000. What happened??? 379137[/snapback] Where was that? I never heard an amount that high.
SilverNRed Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 that was quoted in the story as well. IBC was villified in the early going, but it turns out their methodology based an multiple sourcing is more conservative than the rest of the sources quoted. 379136[/snapback] UNICEF said about a million deaths under Saddam's rule since 1991 with up to half being children. In addition, As UNICEF and other United Nations bodies and officials have reported, the sanctions (which the U.S. and U.K., primarily, refused to have lifted), added to the death toll since 1991 and was estimated to be close to 1 million deaths up to 1998 with mass starvations and disease (while Saddam Hussein had remained unaffected, and he himself sometimes used that for political advantage). Up to half of these are said to have been be children, but the 500,000 number has been controversial based on the methods of data collection and estimation. Other estimates suggest 227,000. In any case, the sanctions have been crticized for targeting Iraqi people and not Saddam Hussein's regime. You'd think the Oil-for-Food program would've helped but that bastion of honesty - the UN - just couldn't pull it off. Link
SilverNRed Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Where was that? I never heard an amount that high. 379139[/snapback] Think he's making of fun of Janeane Garafolo's crazy rants on TV over the past two years. I remember her saying 500K were going to die right before the war started. She supported sanctions, but no word on if she'd read anything UNICEF had to say about them. (my guess: no.)
KD in CA Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Where was that? I never heard an amount that high. 379139[/snapback] Some 'tard 'study' that was quoted ad nausea before the war. I'm sure it's easy to find on google....gotta run, it's happy hour!
Alaska Darin Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 The UNICEF report on the UN Sanctions in Iraq stated that 5K children PER MONTH were dying as a result of the blockade.
Crap Throwing Monkey Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 The UNICEF report on the UN Sanctions in Iraq stated that 5K children PER MONTH were dying as a result of the blockade. 379146[/snapback] But that was our fault. Obviously, we just wanted to do it more directly.
Alaska Darin Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 The sanctions were working! No need for war! War kills innocent people! Sincerely, - Kofi Annan's son, The Russians, The French, and The Germans.
Reuben Gant Posted July 11, 2005 Author Posted July 11, 2005 Think he's making of fun of Janeane Garafolo's crazy rants on TV over the past two years. I remember her saying 500K were going to die right before the war started. She supported sanctions, but no word on if she'd read anything UNICEF had to say about them. (my guess: no.) 379144[/snapback] She's a stand-up commedian, isn't she?
KRC Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 She's a stand-up commedian, isn't she? 379157[/snapback] That is what she claims.
Ghost of BiB Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 That is what she claims. 379163[/snapback] I'd do her.
SilverNRed Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 She's a stand-up commedian, isn't she? 379157[/snapback] No way! Don't you actually have to perform stand-up and be funny to have that title? If she's a stand-up comic, then so am I. We've had the same number of HBO specials in the past 10 years.
Ghost of BiB Posted July 12, 2005 Posted July 12, 2005 No way! Don't you actually have to perform stand-up and be funny to have that title? If she's a stand-up comic, then so am I. We've had the same number of HBO specials in the past 10 years. 379221[/snapback] Aw hell, why not? At least she's not fat?
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted July 12, 2005 Posted July 12, 2005 I'd do her. 379172[/snapback] She wouldn't do YOU though. She's a muncher PAR EXCELLENCE.
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