https://medium.com/collapsenews/the-united-states-is-responsible-for-up-to-1-million-deaths-in-iraq-from-2003-2023-1531eb1f29e5 Open in app Sign up Sign in [ ] Write Sign up Sign in [1] Member-only story The United States is Responsible for Up To 1 Million Deaths in Iraq from 2003-2023 Homeless Romantic Collapse News Homeless Romantic * Follow Published in Collapse News * 4 min read * Just now -- Share Photo by Md Mahdi on Unsplash The Iraq War, which began in 2003 with the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, resulted in a significant human cost, particularly in terms of civilian casualties. According to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, between 280,771 and 315,190 Iraqi civilians were killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion. This wide range of estimates is indicative of the complexities involved in assessing the impact of the war on the Iraqi population. The available data primarily focuses on civilian casualties, highlighting the significant human toll of the conflict. Estimating the casualties from the Iraq War poses many challenges. Experts distinguish between population-based studies, which extrapolate from random samples of the population, and body counts, which tally reported deaths and likely significantly underestimate casualties. Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to 1,033,000 excess deaths (per the 2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey). Other survey-based studies covering different time spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet survey). The Uncomfortable Truth: Time to Hold Uncle Sam Accountable for Iraq and Afghanistan In the grand theater of global politics, where nations wear masks of righteousness, it's high time to peel back the layers and expose the hypocrisy that has stained the United States' hands with the blood of Iraqis and Afghans. The self-proclaimed paragon of democracy and justice now finds itself facing an inconvenient truth -- charges of war crimes for its misadventures in Iraq and... -- -- Homeless Romantic Collapse News Follow Written by Homeless Romantic 202 Followers *Editor for Collapse News Ph.D. Rocket Surgeon & Aspiring Troglodyte Follow Help Status About Careers Blog Privacy Terms Text to speech Teams