Western wars could have killed millions since 1990

[Póg mo 1,749]

Last month, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility (PRS) released a landmark studyconcluding that the death toll from 10 years of the “War on Terror” since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as 2 million.

The 97-page report by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning doctors’ group is the first to tally up the total number of civilian casualties from US-led counter-terrorism interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The PSR report is authored by an interdisciplinary team of leading public health experts, including Dr. Robert Gould, director of health professional outreach and education at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, and Professor Tim Takaro of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.

Yet it has been almost completely blacked out by the English-language media, despite being the first effort by a world-leading public health organisation to produce a scientifically robust calculation of the number of people killed by the US-UK-led “war on terror”.

Mind the gaps

The PSR report is described by Dr Hans von Sponeck, former UN assistant secretary-general, as “a significant contribution to narrowing the gap between reliable estimates of victims of war, especially civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and tendentious, manipulated or even fraudulent accounts”.

 

 

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[smilesammich 10,727]

war on terror should be about as successful as all the other wars lacking tangible targets.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

4 hours ago, smilesammich said:

war on terror should be about as successful as all the other wars lacking tangible targets.

Pfft. The war on drugs. I win 

[smilesammich 10,727]

21 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Pfft. The war on drugs. I win 

boy, your sarcasm meter must be broken.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

10 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

boy, your sarcasm meter must be broken.

I think it is yours that is busted dear 

[smilesammich 10,727]

Just now, Nature Boy Flair said:

I think it is yours that is busted dear 

no. but 

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

I wonder what the number of deaths would have been if Saddam Hussein was left in power in Iraq and the Taliban were left in Afghanistan. Between them they were already racking up high kill rates before the West got involved.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

34 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

no. but 

My pint was the Drug wars is a failure also. Mansplaning is tiresome work 

[smilesammich 10,727]

1 minute ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

My pint was the Drug wars is a failure also. Mansplaning is tiresome work 

now, why would you make a point i'd already made? listening to it ain't no walk in the park either..

[Dashinka 24,872]

22 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

now, why would you make a point i'd already made? listening to it ain't no walk in the park either..

Repeating it helps his memory!

 

[Póg mo 1,749]

1 hour ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

I wonder what the number of deaths would have been if Saddam Hussein was left in power in Iraq and the Taliban were left in Afghanistan. Between them they were already racking up high kill rates before the West got involved.

I guess it doesn't matter how many people Western armies kill then. What ever helps you sleep at night I suppose.

 

P.s. do your numbers include all the people killed by Saddam, when he was the West's best friend? How many Iranians died, while the west looked the other way, and of course protected Iraqi oil tankers? Where was the West's concern for the Iraqi Kurds before Saddam's invasion of Kuwait? 

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

24 minutes ago, Póg mo said:

I guess it doesn't matter how many people Western armies kill then. What ever helps you sleep at night I suppose.

 

P.s. do your numbers include all the people killed by Saddam, when he was the West's best friend? How many Iranians died, while the west looked the other way, and of course protected Iraqi oil tankers? Where was the West's concern for the Iraqi Kurds before Saddam's invasion of Kuwait? 

Your post is a bit of an over reaction I didn't dispute your post but you automatically assumed I did. I never suggested any numbers I just said I wonder how many would have died with both parties left in power.

 

All the questions in your P S. you can Google yourself to get the answers. 

Edited June 20, 2017 by Mr&Mrs G.