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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
I'm still trying to figure out who these 100,000 people are that we supposedly killed in Iraq. I fought in the war and I did see 100,000 people killed by Americans or British.
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It's an epidimiological study published somewhere (The Lancet?). If you read what it actually said, all they could conclude was that the "civilian" (as defined by the relatives of those who died they interviewed) casualties since the start of the war from all causes were between 7,000 and 100,000 higher than would have happened had the war not been fought. This fits with the official Iraqi figures in the region of 10,000. However, those who are against the war pick the high figure despite the fact that this is statistically highly unlikely.
Not that these casualties include for instance those killed by the criminals Saddam let out just before the invasion.