Teribus
You are wrong to rubbish the Lancet article and my refering to it...but there again you warguys have been wrong on just about everything in Iraq.
Les Roberts the lead researcher from John Hopkins Bloomberg university in Baltimore stated that the figure of 100000 Iraqi civilian casualties was a "conservative "number and many of these casualties were women and children.
The editor of the Lancet also wrote at the time that the research had been peer reviewed.
Thousands have been slaughtered since that time ...tonight the news has been full of the marine massacre at Habitha where some 23 civilians ..including women,children and old folk... were slaughtered by marines on the rampage.
And let us remember that the Fallujah bodycount was not included in the Lancet research.
Furthermore the US military has publicly stated that it does not count the Iraqi dead.
Teribus .....you make cheap squalid points but the reality is the wargang have slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
They have used the whole range of weaponry from high expolsives to cruise missiles from depleted uranium shells fired in the thousands to some kind of modern napalm.In addition US marines have admitted to using indiscrimately phospherous shells in the attack on and the destruction of, Fallujah.
Despite the barbarism ,the slaughter and the terror inflicted on the Iraqis [let us remember with shame that the US and the UK were big supporters and funders of Saddam ]it is increasingly clear that the US and the UK are being dragged into another Vietnam .And we know how that ended for the wargang..
Albert