The war on Iraq has made moral cowards of us all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1340562,00.html
More than 100,000 Iraqis have died - and where is our shame and rage?
Scott Ritter
Monday November 1, 2004
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.
Scott Ritter
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