"DON'T ATTACK IRAQ"

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Peter

"DON'T ATTACK IRAQ"

Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and continuing with the ensuing occupation of Iraq coalition presence, as well as the activities of the various armed groups operating in the country) have come in many forms, and the accuracy of the information available on different types of Iraq War casualties varies greatly.

The table below summarizes some of the Iraqi casualty figures.

Source Iraqi deaths March 2003 to...

Iraq Family Health Survey151,000 violent deaths. June 2006

Lancet survey601,027 violent deaths out of 654,965 excess deaths. June 2006

Opinion Research Business survey1,033,000 violent deaths as a result of the conflict. August 2007

Iraq Body Count91,059 – 99,431 violent civilian deaths as a result of the conflict. February 2009

George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls. The prostitutes, some as young as 13, are among the 1.2 million desperate Iraqis who fled to Syria after Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the U.K. Independent.

Bush's invasion destroyed the Iraqi government and unleashed a wave of political and sectarian violence that has killed over 1 million Iraqis and forced 4 million to become refugees, according to the UN.

Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced into prostitution in Syria alone, according to Hana Ibrahim of the Women's Will Association.

"70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in Damascus today are Iraqis," 23-year-old Abeer told the New York Times. "The rents here in Syria are too expensive for their families. If they go back to Iraq they'll be slaughtered, and this is the only work available."

According to the Times, "inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped to make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier countries in the Middle East. In the club's parking lot, nearly half of the cars had Saudi license plates."

As of March 17, the U.S. Department of Defense confirms that 2,309 American soldiers have died in Iraq. To date, 16,653 American soldiers have been wounded. The Pentagon doesn't provide many details about wounded soldiers, so it's unclear how many of those include maiming or permanently crippling injuries.

And 2,172 of the American soldiers killed so far in Iraq died after President Bush's B.S. "Mission Accomplished" speech, delivered from the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln on May 1, 2003.