The Cellar - View Single Post - 100,000 Iraqi Civilians have died in current war

russotto · 02-03-2005, 05:13 PM

Nowhere in the study does it say that the mortality counts they measured was limited to civilians. In fact, they explicitly say it was not:

"Many of the Iraqis reportedly killed by US forces could
have been combatants. 28 of 61 killings (46%) attributed
to US forces involved men age 15–60 years, 28 (46%)
were children younger than 15 years, four (7%) were
women, and one was an elderly man. It is not clear if the
greater number of male deaths was attributable to
legitimate targeting of combatants who may have been
disproportionately male, or if this was because men are
more often in public and more likely to be exposed to
danger. For example, seven of 12 (58%) vehicle accident related
fatalities involved men between 15 and 60 years"

02-03-2005, 05:13 PM	#2
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Nowhere in the study does it say that the mortality counts they measured was limited to civilians. In fact, they explicitly say it was not: "Many of the Iraqis reportedly killed by US forces could have been combatants. 28 of 61 killings (46%) attributed to US forces involved men age 15–60 years, 28 (46%) were children younger than 15 years, four (7%) were women, and one was an elderly man. It is not clear if the greater number of male deaths was attributable to legitimate targeting of combatants who may have been disproportionately male, or if this was because men are more often in public and more likely to be exposed to danger. For example, seven of 12 (58%) vehicle accident related fatalities involved men between 15 and 60 years"