Free Iraq

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There is a saying in Arabic that goes like this: If you have no shame then act as you please!

From the onset of the UN economic sanctions on Iraq in August 1990 and until today, the US has continuously refused to give figures of civilian casualties in its 20-year economic and military war on Iraq. "We don't do body counts," Gen. Tommy Franks, who directed the Iraq invasion, has said. May 3, 2003.

The US war criminals insist that they do not "count" collateral damage (the killing of Iraqi civilians). Yet, they have the audacity today to refute the claim of the incompetent Iraqi authorities regarding civilian dead for July 2010, simply as an expedient statistic to cover their cowardly retreat and withdrawal from Iraq leaving behind them the horrendous mess (radioactive, political, economic, educational, medical, environmental, water, electricity, etc...) that they have bestowed on the Iraqi people.

So does the US know how many Iraqis were killed because of their criminal war on Iraq during the last 20 years, or not? And can it tell our grandchildren why they were killed?

"The US has disagreed with Iraqi assertions that July was the deadliest month there for more than two years.
According to the US military, 222 Iraqis died in July - fewer than half the 535 Baghdad says lost their lives.
The US released its own figures after Baghdad's information prompted concern that insurgents are exploiting a post-election power vacuum.
Insurgent attacks have increased amid failure to form a government since inconclusive elections in March."
Iraq casualty dispute as US denies Baghdad figures, August 2, 2010
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"To state that we cannot know how many have died is outrageously false. It is vacuously true that we cannot know exactly how many have died. But in the diverse fields of human inquiry and endeavor, there are many large numbers that are important which we cannot know exactly. If understanding the magnitude of a number is important, we do not throw up our hands and say, "we can never know." Imagine a reference book that said, "we don't know how many humans are alive on Earth today, because no one has counted them all."
If we want to understand the magnitude of a large number that we cannot count, we estimate it.
And there have now been several attempts to estimate the death toll. In November 2008, Tim Lambert published the following table comparing several estimates, extrapolating the numbers to October 2008:
Survey ..................Violent deaths .....Excess deaths
ILCS .................... 160,000
Lancet 1 ..............350,000 ..................510,000
IFHS .....................310,000..................740,000
Lancet 2: ..............1,200,000..............1,300,000
ORB: .....................1,200,000

If Lambert were to revisit the issue today, he would produce a table that would look something like this:
Survey ..................Violent deaths .....Excess deaths
ILCS .................... 180,000
Lancet 1 ..............400,000 ..................580,000
IFHS .....................350,000 ..................840,000
Lancet 2 ..............1,370,000 ..............1,480,000
ORB .....................1,370,000

These numbers are different from one another. Based on these different numbers, can we say anything meaningful about how many Iraqis have died as a result of the US invasion and occupation beginning in March 2003?
Absolutely we can. We can make the following statement with very high confidence: "Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died as a result of the US invasion."
How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" From Life on Earth?, Ausust 7, 2010
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