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  • garett_west0

    spk.

    " * 6,331 from 1st May 2003 to the first anniversary of the invasion, 19th March 2004 (324 days: Year 1)
    * 11,312 from 20th March 2004 to 19th March 2005 (365 days: Year 2)
    * 12,617 from 20th March 2005 to 1st March 2006 (346 days: Year 3).

    In terms of average violent deaths per day this represents:

    * 20 per day in Year 1
    * 31 per day in Year 2 and
    * 36 per day in Year 3.

    The IBC figure for Year 3 includes no deaths from March 2006, excludes the bulk of killings which followed the 22nd February bombing of a major Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra, and lacks Baghdad morgue data for January and February this year. "

    Iraqi insurgents killing their own people.

    This of course is a hypothetical question, but do you think if the U.S. pulled out tomorrow everything would stop in Iraq and the country would go back to 'normal'?

    Maybe by normal I mean women have no rights, men are killed if they don't have a beard, no music, no western influence, gas to death a few thousand people a year, thousands more go 'missing'. That kind of normal.

    You don't mean that the 30,000 dead are all by the hands of the U.S. troops do you?

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