On 3 nov. 06, at 09:46, Dennis Redmond wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
>
>> First, it would be factually incorrect to directly attribute the
>> majority of violent deaths in Iraq since the invasion directly to
>> US or
>> coalition forces.
>
> But they would still be alive if the US hadn't invaded the place and
> imposed Enronomics, deliberately ripping apart every single
> institution
> which could conceivably hold the society together. Mathematically
> speaking, Hersh is correct:
>
> Vietnam had a population of 34 million in 1960, and 46.5 million in
> 1975.
> About 3 million died in what the Vietnamese call the American War
> (1960-75), or roughly 200,000 per year. This means the annual toll
> ranged
> from 0.4 to 0.6% of the Vietnamese population.
>
> Fast foward to Iraq 2003, which has 27 million people. Estimated
> deaths
> due to US intervention: 215,000 per year. Annual toll on Iraqi
> population:
> 0.8%.
Do we count the people who died after GW1 because of the embargo on Iraq and the daily bombings by US and British planes ?
JC Helary