Introduction - The Surge
In all the endless coverage of the American "surge" committing 20,000 extra troops to the war in Iraq, there has been barely a word about the likely consequences for the civilian population. A report in the Lancet medical journal last year estimated that, as of July 2006, 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the US-UK invasion - one in seven families had lost a household member. MORE http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php
This media alert will be archived shortly here:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070226_iraqi_civilian_suffering.php
Please also see:
Lt. Watada-an American Hero http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4015
Baghdad Hospital Children’s Ward - 07.23.2006
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m30982&hd=&size=1&l=e
Felicity Arbuthnot: The Locusts
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3215&blz=1
Gen. Pace: Military Capability Eroding
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-06.htm
Baghdad Sees Resurgence of Bomb, Mortar Attack Deaths
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-05.htm
Voice to Debate Sheehan Can't be Found
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-08.htm
In all the endless coverage of the American "surge" committing 20,000 extra troops to the war in Iraq, there has been barely a word about the likely consequences for the civilian population. A report in the Lancet medical journal last year estimated that, as of July 2006, 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the US-UK invasion - one in seven families had lost a household member. MORE http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php
This media alert will be archived shortly here:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/07/070226_iraqi_civilian_suffering.php
Please also see:
Lt. Watada-an American Hero http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4015
Baghdad Hospital Children’s Ward - 07.23.2006
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m30982&hd=&size=1&l=e
Felicity Arbuthnot: The Locusts
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3215&blz=1
Gen. Pace: Military Capability Eroding
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-06.htm
Baghdad Sees Resurgence of Bomb, Mortar Attack Deaths
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-05.htm
Voice to Debate Sheehan Can't be Found
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-08.htm