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Your friends skeptical about 655,00 Iraqi Dead? [AUDIO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 2:10 AM on November 18, 2006.


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This American Life Producer Alex Blumberg delves into the controversial Johns Hopkins studies (both printed in the Lancet Med Journal), showing enormous Iraq War casualties: 100,000 in the first study; 655,000 in the more recent one [Listen or download, right].

What he found is that they're only controversial if you don't look at them.

This astonishing, thorough and human journey explores the methodology, stories, and media cowardice surrounding the study, including one man's shift from the Pentagon to a human rights org.

It closes: "Despite the difficulties surrounding civilian casualties in war time, it's actually not that hard." Maybe just too damned sad to comprehend...

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Tagged as: studies, casualties, iraq war

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.


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Depleted Uranium
Posted by: JoeCraine on Nov 18, 2006 7:04 PM   
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The numbers are big.

But, how many Iraqi civilians have died or or now sick and are going to die from radiation exposure? "U238" or DU or Deplete Uranium is radioactive. It is the only warhead used by our tanks. Tons of it blew up at FOB Falcon.

For those who don't care about our brothers abroad, I ask the same question about our already returned and exposed soldiers from Desert Storm who are dieing from exposure to that same radiation and whose children are being born with horrible congenital malformations that, if the soldier leaves the service, the US will not foot the bills for?

Finally, our men and women in uniform, our contract workers, our reporters and finally the stupid kid from Fla that just went over for his Hgh school project, all of whom have been exposed and are going to die, many after they have seen their own children born with horrible deformities.

The death toll from this illegal war fought with illegal weapons will haunt us for ever.

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