St Pete for Peace

Home | About Us | Contact Us | Upcoming Actions

Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600,000, Study Estimates (Oct 2006).
Iraqi Official: 150,000 Civilians Dead (Nov 2006).
At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue (June 2006).
Bush says 30,000 Iraqis killed (Dec 2005); US Admits it has Counted 26,000 Iraqi Casualties (Oct 2005)
82% of Iraqis "strongly opposed" to presence of coalition troops, according to British military survey (Oct 2005)
128,000 Iraqis have been killed - 55% women and children according to an Iraqi humanitarian organization (July 2005)
The U.S. has caused more deaths in Iraq than Saddam, says anti-war tribunal (June 2005)
The war on Iraq has damaged or destroyed 84% of education establishments; 50 University teachers assassinated according to U.N. study (May 2005)

Photos from Fallujah: (1) (2)

Iraqis Endure Worse Conditions Than Under Saddam, UN Survey Finds (The Newstandard)
82% of Iraqis Oppose U.S. Occupation" according to Coalition Provisional Authority poll (May 2004)
Electricity production has been below pre-war levels ....with just 6.7 hours of power daily in Baghdad. Also, Iraq is pumping about 500,000 barrels a day fewer than its pre-war peak of 2.5 million barrels per day ... according to the State Department. (Knight-Ridder)
U.N.: Child malnutrition rates in Iraq have nearly doubled since the start of the current invasion. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A former U.S. Marine said his unit killed more than 30 innocent Iraqi civilians in just two days. (ABC.net)
Fewer than 5% of those killed or captured (in Iraq) were foreigners (LA Times)

Is this Liberation?

34,452 Iraq Civilians Said Killed in '06. [Jan 2007].
About 100,000 Iraqis killed by U.S. led forces in the current war in Iraq. [Source: Johns Hopkins Univ.]

At least 400,000 Iraqi children dead due to U.S. led sanctions. [Sources: Seattle Post-Intelligencer and AFP]

At least 100,000 Iraqis killed by U.S. led forces in the first Gulf War. [Sources: Fmr. Rep. Henry Gonzalez (TX), CNN, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

Note: An estimated 300,000 Iraqis were killed under Saddam Hussein. [Sources: U.S. State Dept. (1,2) and Commondreams.org 1, 2]

U.S. Major General admits that the Iraqi resistance is made up of local Iraqis and just a core of foreign fighters. "If a good, honest person feels having all these Humvees driving on the road, having us moving people out of the way, having us patrol the streets, having car bombs going off, you can understand how they could [want to fight us]." [Gulf News]

"Attack on Fallujah Can't be Justified" by Helen Thomas, 11/12/04 (read)
"How Many More Iraqis Must Die for Our Revenge?" Chicago Sun Times, 11/12/04 (read)
Iraqi Prime Minister: "The great desire of the Iraqi people is to see the coalition forces on their way out." (read)
"82% of Iraqis Oppose U.S. Occupation" according to Coalition Provisional Authority poll, 5/13/04 (read)
From Senate Foreign Relations, 5/18/04:
CHUCK HAGEL: "Secretary Wolfowitz, Secretary Armitage, you know about the latest Washington Post stories regarding polls. Now, I don’t subscribe completely to polls, but just for everyone’s quick review here, last week, The Washington Post reported on a recent poll conducted by the CPA: 80 percent of Iraqis lacked confidence in the CPA, 82 percent disapproved of the United States and allied militaries in Iraq. Furthermore, 45 percent of those polled in Baghdad, 67 percent polled in Basra said they backed Muqtada Sadr. This was before the prison abuse issue. Then there was a subsequent poll taken as well.

How concerned are you with these numbers? Do you believe these numbers? Mr. Secretary?

PAUL WOLFOWITZ: I think we are concerned about them, and in fact, the reason why we have wanted to move toward Iraqi self-government is so that Iraqis feel that it’s their people who are running their country, it’s their security forces that are dealing with their country.

As you say, it’s hard to know the reliability of polling data, especially in a country where people are, to put it mildly, not used to telling the truth to anyone. Although it is striking how some of these polls do seem to show important things. One of them is a poll that I’ve seen that shows very rapidly declining approval of our forces, but pretty steady confidence in Iraqi security forces.

I think it says that we’re on the right track in moving as rapidly as we can to Iraqi self-government and Iraqi self-defense. We don’t have an infinite amount of time however.

Top