> More relevantly for us, Iran is 3.5 times larger than Iraq and roughly twice the population.

Worth noting that at the time of invasion of Iraq they had about 25 million people per gemeni. They now have about 46 mil people per wikipedia. All else equal, we are comparing 25 mil to 93 mil and not half of 93 mil to 93 mil.

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3eb7988a1663 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Excellent catch.

I also used this as an opportunity to reference the now archived[0] CIA Factbook[1] which does put the 2003 Iraq population at 25 million.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114530

[1] https://worldfactbookarchive.org/archive/2003/IZ

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aa-jv 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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macintux 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I'd be curious about a citation for the "lose half of their babies" statement.

This review of the data & papers has some grim numbers, but nothing remotely that dramatic.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7903104/

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MomsAVoxell 5 hours ago | parent [-]

From over a decade ago .. its still happening:

https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/2/e004166

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277304922...

But of course, it depends who you ask. American institutions cannot be trusted, obviously.

	▲	macintux 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Your first link is the same as mine. Nothing in any of the links seems to support the assertion that “Even still today mothers in Baghdad lose half of their babies to deformities caused by the US' criminal use of depleted uranium” I have no doubt that what happened, and is still happening, is tragic. I do doubt that statement.