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The War on Iraq Has Made Moral Cowards of Us All
More Than 100,000 Iraqis Have Died --
and Where is our Shame and Rage?
by Scott Ritter
www.dissidentvoice.org
November 1, 2004
First Published in The Guardian
The full scale of the human cost already paid for the war on Iraq is only now becoming clear. Last week's estimate by investigators, using credible methodology, that more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians - most of them women and children - have died since the US-led invasion is a profound moral indictment of our countries. The US and British governments quickly moved to cast doubt on the Lancet medical journal findings, citing other studies. These mainly media-based reports put the number of Iraqi civilian deaths at about 15,000 - although the basis for such an endorsement is unclear, since neither the US nor the UK admits to collecting data on Iraqi civilian casualties.