hmm do we have actual verified death totals ifrom the jewish persecution by the nazi's ?
Certainly, we always cite the fact the Stalin killed twenty million peopal, and that fourty million civilians died in world war two. These are not based on actual, quantitative tabulations of formally reported deaths in newspapers and hosptital morgues.
Because when we cite them we have a good amount of posterity behind them to gather all the facts to forumulate a very good estimate. This war is still going on and the means to use all that we could use to know for sure is limited.
Well given my demand that we have at least the ability to ascertain these things I would equally object to using those numbers for policy making as well.
The number seems a bit incredible to me given the nature of limited war vs. total war.
My guess is that it has not broken 100000 yet. I do believe it will at some point in the near future. However the Lancet report would have us believe this threshold was crossed long ago. If it was that high then given the escalation of civilian killing we would think that perhaps it has gone well over 200000 at this point.
This level of death via terrorist attacks and targeted aerial bombing does not seem likely at all.
My guess is that it has not broken 100000 yet. I do believe it will at some point in the near future. However the Lancet report would have us believe this threshold was crossed long ago. If it was that high then given the escalation of civilian killing we would think that perhaps it has gone well over 200000 at this point.
This level of death via terrorist attacks and targeted aerial bombing does not seem likely at all.
I expect that documented civilian deaths would make for the largest proportion of the dead, followed by undocumented civilian deaths, followed by iraqi army deaths followed by insurgent deaths followed by coalition deaths. I wouldn't expect the number of the other types of deaths to be more than double the documented civilian deaths.
Isn't the lancet count a couple of years old as well ?
Truth be told I'm not really so sure about the estimated number of those who died during the Saddam regime I have also heard of numbers over 100000 but if you discount the Iran Iraq war I doubt that number is around there either.