Iraq’s civilians paid a higher price

The Bush administration's continuous attempts to conceal the mounting casualties among the Army in Iraq from the American people have failed.

...But according to one of the first attempts to independently estimate the civilian deaths from the Iraqi war in 2004, at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died because of the U.S. invasion. The number is expected to have been at least doubled, bearing in mind Fallujah bombardment and other fierce U.S. military operations and bomb attacks that took place in the war-ravaged country over the past year. According to the international team of public health researchers making the calculations, many of the excess deaths were as a result of aerial bombardments by occupation forces, with women and children being frequent victims...