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Operation Iraqi Freedom (view source)
Revision as of 03:52, October 12, 2010
, 03:52, October 12, 2010→Civilian Casualties
A far more comprehensive and exact survey, using the same exact methods as the Lancet but with a massively larger number of interviews spread out further across the country, found 151,000 civilians had died in the conflict.<ref>http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr02/en/index.html</ref> Because this was three times higher than the IBC estimate at the time<ref>http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr02/en/index.html</ref>, it would indicate a total sum of approximately 300,000 Iraqis as of today.
A far more comprehensive and exact survey, using the same exact methods as the Lancet but with a massively larger number of interviews spread out further across the country, found 151,000 civilians had died in the conflict.<ref>http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr02/en/index.html</ref> Because this was three times higher than the IBC estimate at the time<ref>http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr02/en/index.html</ref>, it would indicate a total sum of approximately 300,000 Iraqis as of today.
Columnist [[Christopher Hitchens]], who supports the war, has boldly argued that the estimates of the death toll are irrelevant:
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Here is the clinching and obvious point: Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion. It has long passed the point of diminishing returns. Like the Ceausescu edifice in Romania, it is a pyramid balanced on its apex (its powerbase a minority of the Sunni minority), and when it falls, all the consequences of a post-Saddam Iraq will be with us anyway. To suggest that these consequences—-Sunni-Shi'a rivalry, conflict over the boundaries of Kurdistan, possible meddling from Turkey or Iran, vertiginous fluctuations in oil prices and production, social chaos—-are attributable only to intervention is to be completely blind to the impending reality. The choices are two and only two: to experience these consequences with an American or international presence or to watch them unfold as if they were none of our business.<ref>http://www.slate.com/?id=2073634</ref>
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==Summary of Justifications for the Iraq War Taken From This Entry==
==Summary of Justifications for the Iraq War Taken From This Entry==