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Originally Posted by Pookie
It's impossible to say but it would be difficult to imagine it could be any worse than what has happened. According to the Lancet there were 655,000 "excess deaths" in Iraq. That was between 2003 and 2006. Some say that's a conservative estimate. Would it be unreasonable to say that that figure has risen to 1 million in the last 5 years? So we can say there would be 1 million more Iraqi men, women and children than there are now.
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There has been some dispute over the Lancet's figures, and the criminal incompetance of the US in the first few years of the war was as bad as it could get.
Incidentally, i didnt support the war at the time ( i was 18 ) and i actually marched against Bush when he came over here to visit in late 2003. I began to change my feelings in 2007 after i worked with some Iraqi Kurds. This doesnt qualify my position of course