The Failed Pacifist

Americans Clueless on Number of Iraqi Dead

An Associated Press poll of over a thousand adults conducted earlier this month shows that, while Americans are keenly aware of the number of U.S. soliders killed, they grossly underestimate the number of Iraqi civilians who have been killed during the war.

Among those polled for the AP survey, however, the median estimate of Iraqi deaths was 9,890. The median is the point at which half the estimates were higher and half lower.

Conservative estimates of Iraqi losses put the number of dead at just over 50,000, but other estimates indicate the number is much higher. A report from John Hopkins last year says 645,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S. invaded in 2003.

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