George Bush on Darfur, May 8, 2006:
About 200,000 people have died from conflict, famine and disease…
A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
George Bush on Darfur, May 8, 2006:
…And more than 2 million were forced into camps inside and outside their country, unable to plant crops, or rebuild their villages…
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled into Jordan to escape the chaos in their country…
Syrian officials say 700,000 Iraqis from various ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds have arrived since the U.S.-led invasion…
Thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the country every day in a “steady, silent exodus”…
Up to 1.6 million Iraqis now live outside their country — mostly in Jordan and Syria, and in increasing numbers in Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, the Gulf states and Europe.
George Bush on Darfur, May 8, 2006:
I’ve called this massive violence an act of genocide, because no other word captures the extent of this tragedy.