John Pilger "The Invisible Government" Part 2/4

Iraq Death Toll Rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian Killing Fields

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted September 17, 2007.

According to a new study, 1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since the 2003 invasion, the highest estimate of war-related fatalities yet. The study was done by the British polling firm ORB, which conducted face-to-face interviews with a sample of over 1,700 Iraqi adults in 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces. Two provinces -- al-Anbar and Karbala -- were too dangerous to canvas, and officials in a third, Irbil, didn't give the researchers a permit to do their work. The study's margin of error was plus-minus 2.4 percent.

Field workers asked residents how many members of their own household had been killed since the invasion. More than one in five respondents said that at least one person in their home had been murdered since March of 2003. One in three Iraqis also said that at least some neighbors "actually living on [their] street" had fled the carnage, with around half of those having left the country.

In Baghdad, almost half of those interviewed reported at least one violent death in their household.

Before the study's release, the highest estimate of Iraqi deaths had been around 650,000 in the landmark Johns Hopkins' study published in the Lancet, a highly respected and peer-reviewed British medical journal. Unlike that study, which measured the difference in deaths from all causes during the first three years of the occupation with the mortality rate that existed prior to the invasion, the ORB poll looked only at deaths due to violence.

The poll's findings are in line with the rolling estimate maintained on the Just Foreign Policy website, based on the Johns Hopkins' data, that stands at just over 1 million Iraqis killed as of this writing.

These numbers suggest that the invasion and occupation of Iraq rivals the great crimes of the last century -- the human toll exceeds the 800,000 to 900,000 believed killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and is approaching the number (1.7 million) who died in Cambodia's infamous "Killing Fields" during the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/62728/

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[EnormousHuntBall]

Suffering the holocaust is no excuse for beginning a new one against the Palestinians.

[craig260691]

If you like John Pilger watch The war on Democracy its a brilliant documentary.

[timewilltell7]

murderers

[riseingstardust]

good one

[robZzdaboss]

@EnormousHuntBall well the thing about the holocaust is that the Jews were already waging war against nazi germany through European country's, the private central banks called in loans and were bankrupting france and brittain and were forced by America to attack germany prior to 1939...but propaganda made hitler look like the badguy and the one who started.he put jews in conentration camps as means to negotiate but america wouldnt back down.also they didnt kill 6 million jews.

[ThePegasusknight]

lol, "do not believe anything until it's officially denied", epic win.

[timewilltell7]

John Pilger - another nail in the Illuminati's coffin

bless his soul - John you have your place in eternity - you wont be coming back to this place for another round ....well done man - well done

I cant understand why that cockroach Henry Kissinger hasn't been taken out yet

[suzieq0452]

The Best lesson my Mother taught me was "Believe None of What You Hear and Half of What You See".It seems that the "Tech Age" has DUMBED DOWN People More than Help Inform. My Parents didn't have an Education,but they READ alot and didn't FALL for BULLSHIT like the "SMART" people today.When did people lose their Common Sense? Right and Wrong has NEVER CHANGED through the AGES,Just the People's ATTITUDE. If It is WRONG for One Country to COMMIT "WAR CRIMES" than it's WRONG for ALL. SIMPLE.

[badsign1980]

ppl think the usa is bankrupt, but it isnt it was a great company, the ppl of the usa are bankrupted they where left with the tab while the elite used them to get puppet dictators, create huge companys multinationals to use and abuse public moneys for was control world influence the usa now knows the truth after the gov using their money to give to the rich like they always had in massive numbers saving only rothschild owned companys in daring move, thats why usa is police state now

[badsign1980]

using central banks to finance their power inside the country corrupt the gov. and have the industry banks elite many tmes in the gov for direct control, democracy never existed in the usas gov are all choosen and follow policys decided by rothschilds agents in the usa, they invest the money from debt and interest from fed for more companys corruption abroad all manners in amry wars are paid by usa citizens all costs are supported by usa citizens that have no influence in anything or say

[badsign1980]

the whole history of the usa, as hints of this higher truth, when countrys started colonization process it was slow and without goals, private money with goals made huge profits they realized the profits could be even bigger if the west indies companys came together as one, since many where divided as countrys and all of them fought eachother representing countrys and not themselfs or stockholders and also they had huge loses with private armys, pays, wars, end result is the usa-uk-dutch banks

[badsign1980]

used by the british and other european countrys in centurys of colonial enterprises, not as countrys but as the late private enterprises owned by jews using nations flags acting as nations representing higher good king god but with profit as goal, british colonialism won,fed is their trade mark, private banks and interests, ppl are owned, look at usa flag and british west indies company and youll see that usa is actual company as a country as its work to conquer world, public moneys-private prof