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I don’t know how many died. Keep in mind one thing though…

You can’t just count deaths from bombings or guns. (though if you count shootings include things such as people in their home or buisness shot by a stray bullet etc…)

Lack of food and sanatation or power (airconditioning) must account a large potential of deaths. Lack of medical treatment, anyone who has any skill fled iraq because those are the first they shoot (insurgents not us)…

Lack of disease prevention or treatment for illness that may have been previously easily treated etc may have caused some of this. These things would effect a large scale of people so small increases in % could add up to lots of people dead over the years.

I do not think that we pay attention much to reports of iraqi police killed unless its a high number. If one is killed here one there one there, they dont say that on the news.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061013/wl_mideast_afp/usiraqunrestpolice

25 iraqi police casualties a day, now the police they have accurate records on. (12 dead a day) 4000 + a year

Now this is not high enough to account for 600,000 dead but just saying the steady drip effect would make more than 50k killed over these years.

One big thing people wouldnt think of is suicide. Suicide rates normally are pretty high as it is about 1% of deaths a year in the us are suicide. Now over there with peoples family members killed etc, suicide could add some to the death toll.

I dont know if all t his adds up to 600,000 but its gotta be a lot mroe than 50,000 as our government seems to want to believe.

If we don’t care about their deaths they sure as hell wont about ours and at the least dont expect t hem to care about ours. Not that they would anyway but just the idea of it…

This guy is basically just taking average deaths, then the deaths now per year and subtracting. So any “butterfly effect” type deaths are related too even if 10 extra people die from stepping on rusty nails since the invasion thats included because his estimate is baised on the totals.

Just remember sadam used to kill terrorists in his country. Probably many non terrorists.

Now death squads kill the innocent people, probably at higher numbers than before. Now us troops try to kill the terrorists but only 4% of the insurgency is alqueda.

I bet the % of alqueda in afganistan where they come from anyway is alot higher …

even if you dont like my post it is a different take at least