That War That Ireland Fuels Everyday

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Saturday July 30, 2005 21:53

by redjade

blogging extracts of the war few remember anymore - or don't know what to do about

Just blog it here...

US Trained Iraqi Soldier in Fallujah

Lancet Medical Journal Criticizes US Failure
to Count Iraqi Civilian Deaths

The Lancet comments:
"IBC compiled a credible list of deaths using just news reports and computers; the fact that the Coalition, equipped with a robust and expanding medical division, has not done so is an indefensible omission--and makes a mockery of international law. The adamant refusal of the USA and its partner countries to keep count of Iraqi deaths is a stance that renders farcical the Geneva Conventions' principle that invading forces have a duty to make every effort to protect civilian lives. How can the Coalition attest that it respects this obligation if it refuses to collect data to prove it? The US-led Coalition that instigated the war claims to have acted on behalf of the Iraqi people. At the very least, Iraq's beleaguered citizens deserve to be told the true price--in numbers of lost human lives--they have paid for a conflict undertaken in their names."

more links to Lancet and others at...
http://amsam.org/2005/07/medical-journal-criticizes-us-failure_29.html