{"id":2298,"date":"2006-10-11T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T11:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/600000-dead-iraqis\/"},"modified":"2006-10-11T06:11:13","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T11:11:13","slug":"600000-dead-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/600000-dead-iraqis\/","title":{"rendered":"600,000 dead iraqis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>bush&#8217;s off-the-cuff estimates and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqbodycount.org\/\">iraq body count<\/a> have the iraqi death toll in the mid-five-figures.  then come the scientists.<\/p>\n<p>peer-reviewed and published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/webfiles\/images\/journals\/lancet\/s0140673606694919.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">lancet<\/a> [pdf],  this study suggests that the real death toll in iraq is in the mid-six figures.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB116052896787288831-8l5AMVpCdg07M3w6XdmTXoPuzno_20061109.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top\">Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600, 000,  Study Estimates<\/a> [wall street journal, 2006.10.11]<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Since March 2003, an additional 2.5% of Iraq&#8217;s population has died above what would have occurred without conflict,&#8221; the report said. The country&#8217;s population is roughly 24 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch has estimated Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime killed 250,000 to 290,000 people over 20 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i&#8217;m going to be very generous and thumbnail some death rates from this quote.  under us-occupied iraq, that means in 43 months (march 2003 to october 2006), the dead-iraqi-rate has been just a shade under 14,000 per month (600,000 \/ 43 = 13,953.5).  under hussein, the dead-iraqi-rate was just a shade over 1200 per month (290,000 \/ 249 = 1208.3).  that makes us-occupied iraq over ten times as efficient at killing iraqis than the evil saddam hussein regime.<\/p>\n<p>this means that 14,000 families have a new reason to hate america every month, and some of those 14,000 families might just have some crazy cousin willing to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>it also means that at this rate, we will have depopulated the entire country in 1714 months, or about 140 years.  is that your exit strategy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bush&#8217;s off-the-cuff estimates and iraq body count have the iraqi death toll in the mid-five-figures. then come the scientists. peer-reviewed and published in the lancet [pdf], this study suggests that the real death toll in iraq is in the mid-six figures. Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600, 000, Study Estimates [wall street journal, 2006.10.11] &#8220;Since March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}