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Originally Posted by project_naughty
Dead civilians = about 8000-12000, mostly killed by the "insurgents" (Islamists and Socialists funded in the most part by Iran and Syria).
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Utter nonsense.
A famous study by Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore found that more than 100,000 civilians have been killed and "They attributed many of those deaths to attacks by coalition forces mostly airstrikes and most of those killed were women and children. The risk of violent death was 58 times higher than before the war, the researchers reported.
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"The fact that more than half of the deaths caused by the occupation forces were women and children is a cause for concern," the authors wrote.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/28/news/toll.html