1 million dead Iraqi civilians....
...the death estimate was revised to 1,033,000 with a given range of 946,000 to 1,120,000
ORB reported that "48% died from a gunshot wound, 20% from the impact of a car bomb, 9% from aerial bombardment, 6% as a result of an accident and 6% from another blast/ordnance.
The ORB poll estimate has come under criticism in a peer reviewed paper entitled "Conflict Deaths in Iraq: A Methodological Critique of the ORB Survey Estimate", published in the journal Survey Research Methods. This paper "describes in detail how the ORB poll is riddled with critical inconsistencies and methodological shortcomings", and concludes that the ORB poll is "too flawed, exaggerated and ill-founded to contribute to discussion of the human costs of the Iraq war"
The Iraq Body Count project also rejected what they called the "hugely exaggerated death toll figures" of ORB, citing the Survey Research Methods paper,which Josh Dougherty of IBC co-wrote.IBC concluded that, "The pressing need is for more truth rooted in real experience, not the manipulation of numbers disconnected from reality."
As of December 2012, the IBC has recorded 110,937-121,227 civilian deaths.
Who did the killing?
37%. US-led forces killed 37% of civilian victims.
9%. Anti-occupation forces/insurgents killed 9% of civilian victims.
36%. Post-invasion criminal violence accounted for 36% of all deaths.
11%. Unknown agents (11%)
so 44,834 is the number of reported killed civilians by US led forces without any details as to why over the course of 9 years.
it's a far cry less that a 1 million... even if it was all US caused.
however- there were 12,253 murders in the US in 2012.
hm.... 44,834 over the course of the war from 2003 to 2012.
that means about 4984 deaths a year in Iraq.
there was 12,253 murders in US of A in 2012.
