http://peacepundit.com/2009/02/16/iraq-war-1-m-killed-45-m-displaced-1-2-m-widows-5-m-orphans/ News and commentary to show the insanity and waste of war Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://peacepundit.com/2009/02/16/iraq-war-1-m-killed-45-m-displaced-1-2-m-widows-5-m-orphans/#comment-308 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:20:37 +0000 http://peacepundit.com/?p=232#comment-308 A friend also pointed out that many Iraqi men have multiple wiives. So if one Iraqi man dies, that may result in more than one widow.

]]> http://peacepundit.com/2009/02/16/iraq-war-1-m-killed-45-m-displaced-1-2-m-widows-5-m-orphans/#comment-307 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:16:09 +0000 http://peacepundit.com/?p=232#comment-307 I heard on NPR today that there are possibly as many as 3 million widows in Iraq. However, they did not all lose their husbands in the current Iraq war. Many were widowed in the war with Iran in the 1980s, the U.S. led Gulf war of 1990, and civil fighting during Saddam Hussein’s reign.

]]> http://peacepundit.com/2009/02/16/iraq-war-1-m-killed-45-m-displaced-1-2-m-widows-5-m-orphans/#comment-306 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:44:39 +0000 http://peacepundit.com/?p=232#comment-306 The damage is clear, but Tirman’s numbers puzzle me: If 1 million are killed and some are women and children, and some must be single men, how might there be “1-2 Million Widows?” Are we seeing some artifact of Islamic law? Or are the numbers just poor estimates?

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