MEDIA LENS: IRAQI CIVILIAN SUFFERING - THE MEDIA SILENCE

Introduction - The Surge

In all the endless coverage of the American "surge" committing 20,000 extra troops to the war in Iraq, there has been barely a word about the likely consequences for the civilian population. A report in the Lancet medical journal last year estimated that, as of July 2006, 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the US-UK invasion - one in seven families had lost a household member. MORE http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php

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Please also see:

Lt. Watada-an American Hero http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4015

Baghdad Hospital Children’s Ward - 07.23.2006
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m30982&hd=&size=1&l=e

Felicity Arbuthnot: The Locusts
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3215&blz=1

Gen. Pace: Military Capability Eroding
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-06.htm

Baghdad Sees Resurgence of Bomb, Mortar Attack Deaths
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-05.htm

Voice to Debate Sheehan Can't be Found
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0227-08.htm