The Ever-Continuing Body Count

Please remember: the murderous effects of DU on Iraq and Americans have yet to be measured.
Iraq conflict has killed a million, says survey
Wed Jan 30, 2008
LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict in their country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to research conducted by one of Britain's leading polling groups.The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.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 had died as a result of the war, the researchers found.
[...] The research covered 15 of Iraq's 18 provinces. Those that not covered included two of Iraq's more volatile regions -- Kerbala and Anbar -- and the northern province of Arbil, where local authorities refused them a permit to work.
[...] Medical journal The Lancet published a peer-reviewed report in 2004 stating that there had been 100,000 more deaths than would normally be expected since the March 2003 invasion, kicking off a storm of protest.The widely watched Web site Iraq Body Count currently estimates that between 80,699 and 88,126 people have died in the conflict, although its methodology and figures have also been questioned by U.S. authorities and others.
ORB, a non-government-funded group founded in 1994, conducts research for the private, public and voluntary sectors. The director of the group, Allan Hyde, said it had no objective other than to record as accurately as possible the number of deaths among the Iraqi population as a result of the invasion and ensuing conflict. (Reporting by Luke Baker; editing by Andrew Roche)
http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL30488579

EVERY Body Counts

Here is further evidence of the way media immunizes Americans from the reality of the war on terror (sic):
Two Million Iraq Deaths, Eight Million Bush Asian Holocaust Deaths And Media Holocaust Denial

Dr Gideon Polya, 07 October, 2007

Quantitative or qualitative denial of the Jewish Holocaust (6 million deaths comprising 5 million murdered and 1 million deprivation-related deaths) is punished in Austria by 10 years in prison and in other countries by lengthy custodial sentences. The Iraqis, Lebanese and Palestinians are overwhelmingly SEMITES by ETHNICITY and the Afghans have a Semitic-origin, Islamic CULTURE. What we are seeing is racist, ANTI-SEMITIC, Islamophobic Holocaust Denial driven by lying, racist, Bush-ite Mainstream media.

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya071007.htm

For previous posts on this topic see:
September 23, 2007 - Who Counts, Redux,

September 16, 2007- Who Counts?

September 16, 2007 - If America was Invaded...

September 9, 2007- 18 US Troops Killed Isn't Newsworthy?

August 21, 2007 - Call It Genocide

Let us NEVER forget: our own troops (and their families) will be future victims:

September 5, 2007 - Daughters of Vietnam Veterans, Cancer in Iraq vets raises possibility of toxic exposure

Blackwater: FedEx of Bagdad?

Blackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law
It takes about 4 minutes to watch the video, and after you'll understand more about BushCo's agenda than 2 years of the NY Times.

Then read The Nation report and be thankful the Senate had testimony from Jeremy Scahill on Friday regarding his investigations of the "contractor" was awarded an initial $27 million no-bid contract to guard Ambassador Paul Bremer.

Editor's Note: This is an edited transcript of the prepared testimony of Jeremy Scahill before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, September 21, 2007

$27 million no-bid contract to guard Ambassador Paul Bremer
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071008/scahill0921

See also:
Blackwater, The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, Jeremy Scahill, May 2007 ISBN: 1560259795

18 US Troops Killed Isn't Newsworthy?

Don’t be put off by the fact that these FACTS come from a socialist newspaper. Whatever your ideology, why isn’t FAUX news telling us that in less than 10 days we’ve already lost 18 troops? Or any of the other media outlets subverted and controlled by Operation Mockingbird? Google it and you'll see what a disgrace our media has become.

18 US troops killed in Iraq in first week of September

By Naomi Spencer, 8 September 2007

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/iraq-s08.shtml