Iraq Body Count And The Real Death Toll

Iraq Body Count has been one of the few organisations who have tried to quantify the carnage which occurred when the US Invasion opened the Pandora's Box of mayhem and sectarianism. Not to mention the US shock and awe killings by bomb and subsequent, undocumented, air raids with precision guided weapons (bah!), night raids, house raids and countless spray and pray shooting galleries. The US and their lackeys famously 'didn't do body counts.' The IBC methodology involves counting only those incidents where a death has been 'documented' more than once. They have never answered the criticism that this is going to be rare in a situation of such anarchy and chaos, particularly when the sectarian killings grew. Robert Fisk described in 2006 how the morgue at Baghdad took in 300 bodies of victims of violence on one day when only 20 killings were being reported. This was common at that time according to the morgue attendants. 
Some key considerations:

• The Lancet and others have trashed the IBC methodology
• George Bush, Tony Blair and their ever-shrinking cohort of apologists have always been quick to latch onto IBC figures in the full knowledge that they are grossly underestimated and portray the Iraq debacle in a less unfavourable light. 

Beware of IBC's recent 'updated' figures in the light of the US 'withdrawal'. They are fatally tainted. Tainted with blood many would say.