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Iraqis assess the surge as overwhelmingly negative, according to a poll by ABC, BBC, and NHK. Most Iraqis, 80 percent, disapprove of the way the United States has performed in Iraq, and 79 percent want us to leave. Forty-one percent of Iraqis report unnecessary violence against Iraqi citizens by occupation forces.
The study by Burnham et. al. in The Lancet found that 31% of the violent deaths in their survey of excess mortality in Iraq in the post war period were due to coalition forces. If this proportion held among their estimated number of deaths, that would give 180,000 deaths due to the U.S. invasion and occupation forces. Further, they were not able to attribute many violent deaths to a specific party, so the number of deaths due to U.S. forces could be substantially higher.
Asia Times reported that the contractor building the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad abused workers, smuggled them into the country illegally, and took their passports.
From opendemocracy.net:
Moreover, a 2003 Human Rights Watch report said that civilian deaths in Iraq "reveal a pattern by U.S. forces of over-aggressive tactics, indiscriminate shooting in residential areas and a quick reliance on lethal forces." Such assessments are echoed in the comment of the new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki after the exposure of Haditha that violence against civilians had become a "daily phenomenon" by many troops in the American-led coalition who "do not respect the Iraqi people" and "crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion."
The Ishaqi case has not received a lot of attention, but the CBC had this report last year.
The CESR reported in 2004 on U.S. war crimes in Iraq.
Here is a report on the August attack on Samarra.
From a report by Naveed Raja from June 2003:
‘American troops today admitted they routinely gun down Iraqi civilians - some of whom are entirely innocent. As distrust of the invading forces increases amongst the local population US soldiers said they have killed civilians without hesitation, shot injured opponents and abandoned them to die in agony. ... Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson added: "There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger. "’
Well reported as they were, the U.S. has never atoned for what happened at Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.
The study by Burnham et. al. in The Lancet found that 31% of the violent deaths in their survey of excess mortality in Iraq in the post war period were due to coalition forces. If this proportion held among their estimated number of deaths, that would give 180,000 deaths due to the U.S. invasion and occupation forces. Further, they were not able to attribute many violent deaths to a specific party, so the number of deaths due to U.S. forces could be substantially higher.
Asia Times reported that the contractor building the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad abused workers, smuggled them into the country illegally, and took their passports.
From opendemocracy.net:
Moreover, a 2003 Human Rights Watch report said that civilian deaths in Iraq "reveal a pattern by U.S. forces of over-aggressive tactics, indiscriminate shooting in residential areas and a quick reliance on lethal forces." Such assessments are echoed in the comment of the new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki after the exposure of Haditha that violence against civilians had become a "daily phenomenon" by many troops in the American-led coalition who "do not respect the Iraqi people" and "crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion."
The Ishaqi case has not received a lot of attention, but the CBC had this report last year.
The CESR reported in 2004 on U.S. war crimes in Iraq.
Here is a report on the August attack on Samarra.
From a report by Naveed Raja from June 2003:
‘American troops today admitted they routinely gun down Iraqi civilians - some of whom are entirely innocent. As distrust of the invading forces increases amongst the local population US soldiers said they have killed civilians without hesitation, shot injured opponents and abandoned them to die in agony. ... Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson added: "There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger. "’
Well reported as they were, the U.S. has never atoned for what happened at Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.
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