IRAQ BODY COUNT

[Sadiq_b]

I came across a newspaper report today about the 2000th U.S. military casualty, Sergeant George Alexander Jr It seems Mr. Bush still hasb't had enough. He wants more...

Read Report (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051027/asp/foreign/story_5404711.asp)

Meanwhile I wondered how many civilians have died in the devastated country. I came across this site.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net

This is what their site says about the count they have.

"What we are attempting to provide is a credible compilation of civilian deaths that have been reported by recognized sources. Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which can only be a sample of true deaths unless one assumes that every civilian death has been reported. It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media. That is the sad nature of war"

They are currently reporting a minimum of 26,732 while a maximum of 30098 civilians killed by the war.

But Like I said, it seems Mr. Bush stil hasn't had enough.

Another interesting article on the middle-east is here. (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051027/asp/opinion/story_5392996.asp)

[Halima]

Salaam

Two years back G.B promised that all the soilders would come back home. It seems as if that promise has diminished. The more soilders that he sends over there the more that die day by day. I find it ironic in your thread and a comment that a girl made in my class about the American casulaties in Iraq. She brought up the topic that there are now 2000 casulaties in Iraq. Then my teacher said that it will soon reach the number of our year which is the number 2005.

Wasalaam

[MF]

Public support in US for Bush's handling of Iraq is at its lowest point, 37 percent... I think thats only going to drop, he should listen to the majority.

[Halima]

Public support in US for Bush's handling of Iraq is at its lowest point, 37 percent... I think thats only going to drop, he should listen to the majority.


Eventually in about 3 more years we will have a new president. By law he's not supposed to serve more than 2 terms. you are right. He should concentrate more on the majority of the votes. Once he pulls those troops out of Iraq than eventually his support will go up. The reason why his ratings are so down is becuase there hasn't been much improvement. It's just been an every day violence since the start of 9/11. Now the american people are losing trust in him.

[Sadiq_b]

Originally Posted by Halima
Eventually in about 3 more years we will have a new president

Maybe in 3 years time with a new President, US may decide to pull out of Iraq. But the stress is on maybe. Morever, 3 years means about 1095 days. With the current situation that would mean at least another 500 U.S. soldiers dead and another 5000 Iraqi civilians dead.

Interestngly, in a couple years U.S. has succeeded in much more Iraqi civilians dead than Saddam managed to kill in more than 20 years. For us all these people may be just numbers... for a second imagine if the person dead was one of our loved ones.So one death doesn't just mean one addition to the death toll, it means many many more lives are devastated and may become worse than death itself.

[Will]

[QUOTE]Interestngly, in a couple years U.S. has succeeded in much more Iraqi civilians dead than Saddam managed to kill in more than 20 years
Nonsense. Conservative estimates put the victims of the Hussein regieme at well over one hundred thousand, with some putting the toll at over one million. I don't necessarily agree with the war on Iraq, but to make such accusations is wrong in my opinion.

[Sadiq_b]

[QUOTE]Nonsense. Conservative estimates put the victims of the Hussein regieme at well over one hundred thousand, with some putting the toll at over one million. I don't necessarily agree with the war on Iraq, but to make such accusations is wrong in my opinion.

Hmmm, I did some research and it seems that the western media is in agreement that ever since the US led invasion about 30,000 Iraqi deaths have been reported while the Saddam regime may have managed to put the death toll over 100,000.

Now there are two points to note here.

1.> Whether one is ready to trust the western media completely?

2.> Even if one did trust these reportings, while the Saddam figure was achieved in about 25 years of Baath party rule, almost 1/3rd the figure is achieved in about two years of the american occupation.

Even if we were not to agree upon numbers, I don't think anyone can argue that life in Iraq has got a whole lot cheaper ever since the Mr. Bush decided to "liberate Iraq".