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To: dukeman
It's just a Leftist talking point that has an untraceable origin like every other Urban Legend.

The body count of "civilians" (meaning attackers who don't wear an Iraqi military uniform) is around 10,000. Even the Leftist "Iraqi Body Count" site only puts the number between 14,000 and 16,000.

5 posted on 12/02/2004 9:55:12 AM PST by Prime Choice (I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
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To: Prime Choice

And how many of them were killed by the so-called "freedom fighters".


16 posted on 12/02/2004 9:57:43 AM PST by MadAnthony1776
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To: Prime Choice

The leftist body count site has the number at 14,000 to 16,000. On their site, they say this about the 100K number

"IBC response to the Lancet study estimating "100,000" Iraqi deaths

Some people have asked us why we have not increased our count to 100,000 in the light of the multiple media reports of the recent Lancet study [link] which claims this as a probable and conservative estimate of Iraqi casualties.

Iraq Body Count does not include casualty estimates or projections in its database. It only includes individual or cumulative deaths as directly reported by the media or tallied by official bodies (for instance, by hospitals, morgues and, in a few cases so far, NGOs), and subsequently reported in the media. In other words, each entry in the Iraq Body Count data base represents deaths which have actually been recorded by appropriate witnesses - not "possible" or even "probable" deaths."


18 posted on 12/02/2004 10:05:01 AM PST by SAR
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To: Prime Choice; dukeman
Ah, but this time there IS a known origin for this ridiculous anti-American lie. The 100,000 figure has appeared in at least the British medical publication Lancet.

The figure itself was 'derived' (cough, choke) through the usual means employed by the statistically illiterate liars of the Left, to wit, false-to-fact assumptions, deliberate mixing of data sets, miscategorisation of existing data, and some of the most egregiously non-linear extrapolation ever seen.

27 posted on 12/02/2004 10:19:27 AM PST by SAJ
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