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'Bush is living in Cloud Cuckoo Land'Now Who's Living In A Cloud
Solve; Given that the ratio of wounded to dead in armed conflict is between 3-4 to 1, there would have to be between 3 to 4 million wounded filling up hospital beds all over Iraq. That is 20 percent of the entire population. That many injured would require almost 1 million more Iraqis to man the hospitals. Where are all these people? Cuckoo land would be found in Switzerland.
Submitted on Tue, 2008-03-25 00:22
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'Bush is living in Cloud Cuckoo Land'
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:57:08
The head of a leading Muslim think tank in UK has derided Bush's remarks on Iraq's victory, saying he is living in a cloud cuckoo land.
"How can President Bush claim success when millions have died and life is worse for many Iraqis," said Mohammad Shafiq, the director of Ramadhan Foundation.
The Manchester-based foundation is the UK's leading Muslim youth organization that is working for peaceful co-existence and dialogue for all communities.
Shafiq said five years after the occupation the world has recognized that the occupation was illegal and against the international laws.
He held the US president, George W. Bush, and the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, accountable for Iraq's humanitarian disaster.
The icasualties.org web site, based only on published reports, shows that around 8,000 members of the Iraqi security forces have died since the March 2003 invasion. Last year however the Iraqi government put the figure at 12,000.
There is no agreement when it comes to civilian casualties, particularly as many deaths are never reported in the media.
In January, a joint UN World Health Organization and the Iraqi government study concluded that between 104,000 and 223,000 Iraqis had died since the invasion.
At the high end of the scale, British polling institute Opinion Research Business in a report published on January 30 estimated the total number of civilian deaths at between 946,000 and 1.12 million.
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