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Originally Posted by firstdown
I'm not sure how you came up with those numbers and the ones in you link assume allot of stuff. It used numbers saying that we starved them when food was suppose to be traded for oil. Where did the food go? I also here that the country had no money because of the embargo. He found money to build all those palaces and to rebuild his army but he let his people die. So I don't think those numbers can be accurate or used saying that the UN embargo killed them. Also some of the sources used was The Church of Christ which is a group that is against the war so how do we know that they don't make the numbers support their view?
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Yeah, what I liked about the site is that it uses several sources to produce their own numbers. So if you disagree with their numbers... simply look at different sources and compare... (it's also interesting to see some of the drastic differences).
The 665,000 numbers for those who have died in the Iraqi war... those numbers are not hard to find. Washington post reports:
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 - washingtonpost.com
It's far higher than actual, and I should have looked further... but I needed a number and that's what I found
Study: War blamed for 655,000 Iraqi deaths - CNN.com