America And The Iraqi Genocide

An estimated 655,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the American invasion in 2003. This tally was published today by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It is an extrapolation of the sample results from the interviews of 1849 Iraqi families across the country. It's margin of error ranges from a low of 426,369 to a high of 793,66e deaths. It's the same sample method used in the tallies of the genocides in Darfur and the Congo. But Iraq's grim experience eclipses these other two atrocities in number.

The Iraqi government says the number of deaths is much lower. The Iraqi government uses actual body counts at the morgue. But suppose the body or bodies were vaporised by an explosion or incinerated by fire or buried without a trace? How do they count those fatalities?

The American invasion has been usurped by militias of Shia, Sunni and Kurds. Of those 3 the Sunnis are losing the most. America has become the de facto underwriter of this genocide and civil war with it's weapons and logistical support. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle et al should be tried for their part in this crime of the century.