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Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey


LONDON - More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain’s leading polling groups.

The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.

The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people had died as a result of the war, the researchers found.

The margin of error in the survey, conducted in August and September 2007, was 1.7 percent, giving a range of deaths of 946,258 to 1.12 million.

ORB originally found that 1.2 million people had died, but decided to go back and conduct more research in rural areas to make the survey as comprehensive as possible and then came up with the revised figure.

The research covered 15 of Iraq’s 18 provinces. Those that not covered included two of Iraq’s more volatile regions — Kerbala and Anbar — and the northern province of Arbil, where local authorities refused them a permit to work.

Estimates of deaths in Iraq have been highly controversial in the past.

Medical journal The Lancet published a peer-reviewed report in 2004 stating that there had been 100,000 more deaths than would normally be expected since the March 2003 invasion, kicking off a storm of protest.

The widely watched Web site Iraq Body Count currently estimates that between 80,699 and 88,126 people have died in the conflict, although its methodology and figures have also been questioned by U.S. authorities and others.

ORB, a non-government-funded group founded in 1994, conducts research for the private, public and voluntary sectors.

The director of the group, Allan Hyde, said it had no objective other than to record as accurately as possible the number of deaths among the Iraqi population as a result of the invasion and ensuing conflict.

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JeffinCO

"George Bush is going to bring democracy to the Iraqi people if he has to kill every last one of em." - Bill Maher.

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mudwhistle

The Lancet report's methodology was widely criticized and this nonsense is even worse. I'm not surprised to see hatemongering liberals making up numbers about dead people to celebrate though.

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Jonesy

Another failure. You're too old, Mud. Keep going though; it sure makes things easy for 'the other side'.

Kanadesaga

What kind of a morally bankrupt, socially retarded human being says "so what" to a million innocent deaths? Only a true inbred, redneck, goat fucker would say anything like that.

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JeffinCO

dont hold back.

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Kanadesaga

I never had that problem, in fact just the opposite. But these stupid rednecks don't even know what they're cheering. They are craven cowards, fit only as figures of riducule and derision. they are beneath contempt and if on fire I wouldn't piss on them.

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Kanadesaga

gee dog, still thinking about my "hose" are you? You just can't quit me can you? Forget it dude you are defintiely not my type!!! find a goat somewhere, you can make it your pet.


and I write considerably more concise and articulately than you ever thought of. did you see the review of your writing? When you learn to spell "your", I'll be impressed. when you know the difference between "your" and "you're" -I'll really be amazed!

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Kanadesaga

There you go talking about your hobbies again. blow anybody new lately? visit any good airport mens rooms?

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Kanadesaga

why thank you for proving you are dog, Now, you will be banned here, again. oh I notice how you are running in invisble mode, chicken shit little fuck that you are.


and I left a message for you earlier. It still goes buckwheat!

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