It is common sense that the massive death toll over the eight years of occupation in Iraq would create more widows. But a new study by the humanitarian aid organization Relief International has found the problem far greater than anyone likely imagined.
The study found that some 10 percent of the women in Iraq are widows, about 1.5 million of them. Of these, 59 percent lost their husbands during the period since the US occupation began in 2003.
Just a quick bit of math shows that to be some 900,000 women who lost their husbands since 2003, an enormous number that once again points to the civilian death toll since 2003 being much larger than the US ever cared to admit.
But while this shows the enormity of the past violence, the report isn’t about that, but rather about pointing out the major current problem. Being a widow in war-torn Iraq is tough, and those widows are likely to be desperate and vulnerable to recruitment for terror attacks. 900,000 more desperate Iraqis point again to a war that is far from over.
American Taxpayers will pay for thier version of Head Start, Birth Control, WIC, Welfare, Medicare, SSDI, SSI, Grants and Loans for School, etc….but our fearless scum (aka: "Elected Officials) don't want any American Taxpayers money to actually help Americans.
That sounds about right: 900,000 plus 100,000's of children and others adds up to well over a million killed. We learned not to do body counts in Vietnam where the American newspapers were proudly proclaiming every day the 100's of 'enemies' killed in order to convince us that victory was just around the corner. It backfired when Americans began to ponder how many people we were killing from a conscience pt. of view instead of a military one.
But I thought Saddam was the bad guy.
You guys should read this from Relief International: http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d…
Also, RI is wrong about the number of women. if you look up Iraq demographics, there aren't 15 million women in Iraq. It's more like 10 million or less. So the 900,000 number needs to be cut down to at least 600,000 and then most of these were due to disease or old age, not killings. And "during war" is not the same thing as "caused by war". Hundreds of thousands of husbands would have died in Iraq in the 8 years since 2003 whether there was a war or not. The war probably made it a bigger number than it would have been otherwise, but it didn't create the whole number.