Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

So Mr Blair We're Winning?

According to Iraq body Count/Oxford Research Group's latest terrifying report:

- 24,865 civilians were reported killed in the first twoyears of the war - Women and children accounted for almost 20% of all civilian deaths - US-led forces killed 37% of civilian victims - Post-invasion criminal violence accounted for 36% of all deaths - Anti-occupation forces/insurgents killed 9% of civilian victims

- Post-invasion, the number of civilians killed was almost twice as high in year two (11,351) as in year one (6,215)

Speaking at the launch of the report in London yesterday, Professor John Sloboda, FBA, one of the reports authors said:

"The ever-mounting Iraqi death toll is the forgotten cost of the decision to go to war in Iraq. On average, 34 ordinary Iraqis have met violent deaths every day since the invasion of March 2003. ....It remains a matter of the gravest concern that, nearly two and half years on, neither the US nor the UK governments have begun to systematically measure the impact of their actions in terms of human lives destroyed.

posted by Tony @ Wednesday, July 20, 2005