Sunday, March 17, 2013

Civilian Deaths in Iraq

I've been looking for this information for so long!  

"In Iraq, 115,376 Iraq civilians were killed between 2003 and 2011 as sectarian fighting intensified, according to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, while the number of internally displaced Iraqi civilians rose from 400,000 in 2003 to 2.7 million by 2010."

Check out the link to the Brooking's Institution's report, too.

You can see that the number of civilian deaths dropped dramatically in the Fall of 2007, a full year before the election. I guess that demonstrates that the Bush White House started getting things right at the end. It's hard to give them compliments.  (I mean they invaded the country needlessly to begin with).

It is also encouraging to see that in the year since the U.S. left Iraq the number of civilian casualties continued to drop dramatically, and their economy continued to pick up. Unfortunately the police and military there have been taking a beating since U.S. troops left...

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