Iraqi Kite-Flying Innumeracy

Omar gets some serious backup in the comments:

"A real response? I see, a man who actually lives in Iraq can not be trusted but this nonsensical report can.

According to this report about 770 people have died every day. Every day. Where are they? They do not say. According to this report 14% of the 655,000 people died as a result of suicide bombers, that would be about 91,700 people. When and where were these people killed? They don't have a clue.

A bad month in Iraq is about 2600 casualties, but according to this socalled survey, 22,800 people have died every single month.

A third, or more than 200,000 would have died in air raids. That is more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

According to this report 57% were killed by gunfire, that would be about 373,000 people.

Where are the bodies? When and where they buried? Did the BBC and AP, UPI, Reuters, AlJazeera all conspire to help hide the truth? Are the US and the Iraqi government together with all the doctors and mayors part of the plot ot hide these hundreds of thousands of dead people?

They took the deaths of a few hundred people and exptrapolated them into more than 600,000 and they compared numbers to the preinvasion Iraq saying there had been virtually no violent deaths in Iraq the 14 months before the invasion. Think about how absurd that is.

Oh yes, Iraq was just a paradise of kite flying children."

Halabja? What Halabja? Mass graves? What mass graves?