--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/2/05 2:28:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It also says IRC and UN figures > show just under 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties. > > Just remember the word casualty can mean any medical attention > given from a band aid to a death certificate. I think John Kerry > had a few of those band aids and got purple hearts for them.
Right, but when you restore the context that was snipped (by you?), it's clear the figure applies to deaths: "A review of many foreign news sites show that actual deaths are far higher than the newly reduced ones. Iraqi civilian casualties are never reported but International Red Cross, Red Crescent and UN figures indicate that as of 1 January 2005, the numbers are just under 100,000." The estimate of 100,000 deaths may actually have come from a study published last year in the British medical journal The Lancet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3962969.stm The estimate's accuracy has been questioned, needless to say, but it isn't a figure just pulled out of the air by a propagandist. It should also be noted that the estimate is of all excess deaths related to the war, not just deaths directly attributable to combat- type operations. Fifty-one percent were due to violence, and most of those were from air strikes by coalition forces. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
