An article by Karen Kwiatkowski was linked by AntiWar.com around August 26 or so, that called into question the actual number of civilians killed in Iraq.
Excerpted from For Omar;
Jude Wanniski reports the number of Iraqi civilians dead, long past rigor mortis and rotting, as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in mid-March 2003. The body count, conducted by the Iraqi Freedom Party, covers 14 governorates in Iraq and provides data up to mid-June 2003. The number is around 37,000. 37,000 dead civilians, that is.
It’s about .15% of the whole Iraqi population (24 million souls) and you need to know what it doesn’t count. It doesn’t count soldiers, Fedayeen, militia or para-military – just the dead civilians. It doesn’t count those civilians injured, maimed or psychologically damaged. It doesn’t count the governorates in Iraqi Kurdistan. It just counts the dead among people like you and me, our kids, our neighbors and their kids, and the people we see down at the Wal-mart and the local bank.
I’ve kept this article in mind ever since, looking for rebuttals to it, or even better a discussion of it.
If someone could direct to me to either I’d appreciate it.