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That's a lot, but also less than the 100,000 figure of the Lancet study.
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That's a lot, but also less than the 100,000 figure of the Lancet study."Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
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I have no idea, I haven't been there, no one knows for sure, but IMO that sounds about right. Tough to say though. It's still a lot though.. it's a lot...In da butt.
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Are these only the people killed in the fighting or does it include those who died as a result of the disruption of society?
In any event, given the massive numbers that were dying before the war, this may be a net gain for the Iraqi people, as somehting like 150,000 a year were dying previously from sanctions.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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and the number killed from Saddam
now we didn't go into there for the right reasons
but we can do some good while we are in there, if we pressure our representatives...
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24,000 is much more reasonable than that BS Lancet one, that unfortunately have been used by my fellow lefties as an excuse for knee-jerk anti-americanism.Comment
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Does this study include casualties from terror attacks and coalition combat operations or does it just stick to excess civilian deaths due to disruption of sservices?"I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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That would make a comparable figure of 300000 in the US. Less than the Civil War; very reasonable indeed.Originally posted by Odin
24,000 is much more reasonable than that BS Lancet one, that unfortunately have been used by my fellow lefties as an excuse for knee-jerk anti-americanism.Statistical anomaly.
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24,000 is not much.Comment
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Especially since during the civil war we had, what, less than a third of our current population.Originally posted by DAVOUT
That would make a comparable figure of 300000 in the US. Less than the Civil War; very reasonable indeed.Comment
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I'm not out to promote anti-Americanism, but 24,000 deaths is just as bad as 100,000 deaths, in that 0 of them should have happened.24,000 is much more reasonable than that BS Lancet one, that unfortunately have been used by my fellow lefties as an excuse for knee-jerk anti-americanism.meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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but 100000 would be happening anyway...
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GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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so it shouldn't be compared to 0...
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At least 76,000 people would disagree vehemently.Originally posted by mrmitchell
I'm not out to promote anti-Americanism, but 24,000 deaths is just as bad as 100,000 deathsThe genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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That's unclear from this information.Originally posted by Jon Miller
but 100000 would be happening anyway.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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24,000 is reasonable?Originally posted by Odin
24,000 is much more reasonable than that BS Lancet one, that unfortunately have been used by my fellow lefties as an excuse for knee-jerk anti-americanism.
I'm with MrMitchell on this one.
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
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