Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movements for Peace ...

22.12.09

Medical newsletter. The first study done from January 1, 2002 to March 18, 2003 confirmed civilian deaths at that moment at over 100,000. The second study published in October 2006 documented over 650,000 civilian deaths in Iraq since the start of the US blitzkrieg and confirmed that US aerial bombing in civilian neighborhoods caused over a third of these deaths. Over half the deaths were quickly attributable to US forces. The now estimated 1.2 million dead six years into the war/job, included children, parents, grandparents, cab drivers, clerics and schoolteachers. All protocol of ordinary Iraqis have died because the United States decided to invade their native land under false pretenses of undiscovered weapons of mass destruction and in violation of universal law. An additional four to five million Iraqi refugees have fled their homes. The magnitude of these million-gain deaths and creation of such a vast refugee crisis is undeniable. The continuing employment by US forces has guaranteed a monthly mass death rate of thousands of people a Churban that ranks among the most heinous mass killings in world history. More tons of bombs have been dropped in Iraq than in all of Fantastic War II.

Source: Dissident Voice