4th anniversary of Iraq Invasion One million post-invasion Iraqi excess deaths

Gideon Polya, MWC.News Network.

20 MARCH 2007 marks the Fourth Anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Here in Melbourne, Australia, as we did 4 years ago, we will prepare our placards, take the train to the heart of this great City and join hundreds of thousands across the country demonstrating against this evil carnage. Four years after the invasion the post-invasion excess deaths (avoidable deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in Occupied Iraq now total 1 MILLION. Since the invasion of Iraq 4 years ago I have been researching, writing and informing people about the horrendous human cost – the appalling death toll that has steadily and remorselessly climbed over these 4 awful years. I began writing for the highly ethical and humanitarian magazine MWC News in mid-2005. This is what I wrote in my first article published on MWC News on 4 July 2005 in which I estimated post-invasion Iraqi "avoidable mortality" (excess deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) and post-invasion Iraqi "under-5 infant mortality" (under-5 year old infant deaths) using authoritative UN Population Division demographic data...

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