President Biden celebrates the lives of those Americans who died from Covid 19 Virus- 500.000 Americans so far.. Very sad indeed.
On the other hand, not a tear was shed on any of the 500,000 Iraqi's death as a result of the US invasion of Iraq, nor those who are injured.
We can put that into the context of the U.S. population, which was more than 10 times as large at the outset of the Iraq war.
- 2004: 4.5 out of every 10,000 Iraqis killed. Equivalent to 130,000 American deaths — the population of McKinney, Tex., in 2010.
- 2005: 6.1 out of every 10,000 Iraqis killed. Equivalent to 181,000 American deaths — like eliminating Tallahassee.
- 2006: 10.7 out of every 10,000 Iraqis. Equivalent to 318,000 American deaths — the population of St. Louis.
- 2007: 9.2 out of every 10,000 Iraqis. Equivalent to 277,000 American deaths — the population of Newark.
We bolded the key phrase: About 400,000 deaths were probably attributable to the conflict from 2003 to 2011, about 240,000 of them a result of violence and 160,000 from war-related causes. The 240,000-death estimate caused by the conflict is about twice the IBC estimate. (That study also estimated an additional 55,000 deaths among Iraqis who fled the country during the conflict.)
That takes us only to 2011. In the seven years since, IBC estimates, there were 82,000 additional deaths resulting from the conflict in Iraq — just among civilians.
It seems likely that the death toll in the past 15 years easily exceeded half a million Iraqis, but how much higher is hard to determine.
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