Civilian Casualties in Iraq
Kucinich gave the following speech in Congress on July 20, 2005:
"Mr. Speaker, today's New York Times states that a London-based group of academics and researchers has released a report on civilian casualties in Iraq for the first 2 years of the war. The report, based on analysis of civilian casualties reported in the news media, states that 24,865 civilians were killed and about 42,500 wounded.
"The report goes on to list its findings specifically. We also know that there is another study which was published in October of 2004 in the Lancet, the British medical journal, according to the New York Times, that says that some of the estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths range as high as 100,000.
"I have stood on this floor many times and bemoaned the loss of our American troops, but I think in the name of humanity we have to start thinking about the impact that this war is having on the civilians in Iraq. Their lives are being destroyed. Their families are being wiped out.
"House Joint Resolution 55 sets the stage for bringing our troops home and ending this tragedy in Iraq."
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