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October 28, 2004
A Dirty Business
"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal.

"The use of air power in areas with lots of civilians appears to be killing a lot of women and children," Roberts told Reuters.

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They found that the risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher than before the war.

Reuters

If we reelect the people who launched this war, a war that was launched with no provocation, we will all have the blood of those 100,000 Iraqis on our hands. It makes me sick to my stomach.

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