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A year in Iraq, death by death, for 2007

January 8th, 2008 by Erich Vieth

This disturbing NYT graphic allows you to count them up, all the deaths that billions of U.S. tax dollars can buy.  It includes all of the deaths of those in uniforms caused by the conflict, not just the deaths of U.S. soldiers.  It does not show the civilian deaths. “[S]adly, civilian fatalities in Iraq last year were simply too numerous to represent on a single newspaper page.”

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One Response to “A year in Iraq, death by death, for 2007”

  1. Erich Vieth Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    The latest study estimates that more than 150,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the U.S. invasion. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22578010/

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