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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: TimF who wrote (2748)10/13/2006 6:11:41 PM
From: cirrus  Read Replies (2) of 10087
 
Unfortunately, the US Government does not make any attempt to track Iraqi military or civilian casualties.

However, lets assume that 2,500 US soldiers die in Iraq. It's well known that armor and medical care care have drastically reduced American deaths, perhaps to half of what they might have otherwise been. Iraqi medical care is marginal.

It would be fair to say that given the immense firepower brought to bear on Iraqi military installations during the conflict at least 5 Iraqi soldiers die for every American.

So, given the adjusted number of 5,000 American deaths, multiply that by 5 and you get 25,000 Iraqi military dead.

A common rule of thumb in any conflict is that 10 civilians will die for every soldier. Take the 25,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, multiply it by 10 and we have 250,000 Iraqi civilians dead.

This number is a another guess based on grim speculation, but for the US to dispute estimates without offering any analysis of it's own...
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