British-Iraqi survey confirms one million deaths as a result of US invasion

David Walsh, WSWS

Even as the Bush administration, virtually unchallenged by the Democrats or any significant voices in the media, claims 'success’ in Iraq and makes clear its intention to establish permanent bases there, further polling data has emerged that underscores the dimension of the US war crimes in that country. The British polling agency ORB (Opinion Research Business) issued survey results January 28 that confirm its earlier estimate that more than one million Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the American-led invasion and occupation (...) The ORB findings vindicated the study published in the Lancet, the British medical journal, in October 2006, which put the Iraqi death toll then at approximately 655,000... continua / continued