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The last complete census in Iraq conducted in 1997 found 4.05 million households in the country, a figure ORB used to calculate that approximately 1.03 million people been killed as a result of the US war, the researchers found.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL3048857920080130?rpc=401&


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Deadly hubris

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

02/01/08

A million dead — and for what? So that the neoconservatives could strand astride Washington and the world, bellowing threats and beating their chests in the wake of 9/11, braying that everything — everything — had changed, especially the basic rules of human decency. Because it was ‘doable,’ as Paul Wolfowitz put it. Because our foreign policy is in large part built around the concept of making the Middle East safe for Israel. And, most of all, because of the sheer hubris of those who thought themselves above the laws of God and man — who thought they were gods, and let loose American thunderbolts with reckless abandon, with deadly consequences...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12296


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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