A couple of days ago, I learned two new things about Iraq.
One, I learned my much-loved grandson had received the call to go toBaghdad in July, to help save America from someone hiding in a cave in Afghanistan.
Then I read that the U.N. estimates the Iraqi death toll for the first eleven months of 2006 was 34,452. There are two interesting things about this number. First, they didn't estimate "approximately 34,000." They said 34,452. Hard not to believe a number derived with such precision. The other interesting thing to note is that the total population of Iraq is about one-eleventh the population of the USA. So, if the same calamity was happening here in our country, on a per-capita basis we would have lost about 380,000 Americans to terrorism last year. It's figures like that which drive home the enormity of the catastrophe we unleashed on these people.
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Some have estimated that as many as two million Iraqis have fled the country, which may have lowered the population by as much as 8%. Add that to the dead and the numbers are indeed troubling.
Add that to the dead and the numbers are indeed troubling.
Especially since it's so difficult to get an accurate count of the numbers for either category.
Good for people to know.
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