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Estimates of civilian casualties vary. According to Fox News, March 20, 2007, over 54,000 civilians have been killed in the war. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259875,00.html</ref> Other sources list a much higher figure. However, due to suicide bombings and other such activity, the fatalities caused by US/Coalition forces in action was only <b>31 percent</b> of the total number given according to CNN's report October 2006, <ref> http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/ </ref> down from 32 percent quoted by this Boston Globe report <ref> http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-jackson191205.htm </ref> dated December 19, 2005. In the Fox News study, that would mean <b>16,740</b> of the 54,000 casualties.
Estimates of civilian casualties vary. According to Fox News, March 20, 2007, over 54,000 civilians have been killed in the war. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259875,00.html</ref> Other sources list a much higher figure. However, due to suicide bombings and other such activity, the fatalities caused by US/Coalition forces in action was only <b>31 percent</b> of the total number given according to CNN's report October 2006, <ref> http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.deaths/ </ref> down from 32 percent quoted by this Boston Globe report <ref> http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-jackson191205.htm </ref> dated December 19, 2005. In the Fox News study, that would mean <b>16,740</b> of the 54,000 casualties.
Liberals often quote the Lancet study to inflate the number of dead in Iraq. This strategy is used to give the impression that Iraq is a more violent place than it used to be under Saddam Hussein which is not the case. [http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jan03/0,4670,IraqCasualties,00.html]
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