{"id":2460,"date":"2006-06-25T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2006-06-25T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T15:27:00","slug":"50000-and-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/06\/25\/11\/27\/50000-and-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"50,000 And Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion … a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration … Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed nationwide in the last three years.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Using this scaling that makes the equivalent of roughly 3,500 killed each week, week after week, since 2003. That’s a vaguely comparable death toll to the jetliner attacks of September 11th, 2001, on the United States. Except for the Iraqis it’s now a weekly occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion … a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration … Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t