If the article was real, it would have turned up in the archive search. It did not, therefore it is a fake.
The 650,000 number is also a lie. Here's proof as provided by mkirk a while back.
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index20061221.pdfQuoted data from the Janaury 2007 Brookings Institution report. The weblink goes to a .pdf document including this information...plus loads more. This seemed to be relevant for the posting and the US is not killing all the Iraqi civilians as has already been pointed out.
IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED BY US TROOPS
2005 Average of 7 per week
January 2006 4 per week
August 2006 1 per week
NOTE ON IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED BY US TROOPS: The military has recently announced that an average of one Iraqi civilian per day was killed in “escalation of force” incidents alone in 2005. Josh White, Charles Lane and Julie Tate, “Homicide Charges Rare in Iraq War; Few Troops Tried for Killing Civilians,” Washington Post, August 28, 2006.
ESTIMATES OF IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED BY VIOLENCE:
These numbers do not include Iraqi civilians killed during major combat operations March 19, 2003-April 30, 2003.
Iraq Index Estimate using IBC Data – May 2003 – December 31, 2005, not including crime: 19,500
Iraq Index Estimate using IBC Data – May 2003 – December 31, 2005, including crime: 42,100
Iraq Index Estimate using UN Data – January 2006 – October 2006: 28,000
Iraq Index Cumulative Estimate using IBC and UN Data – May 2003 – October 31, 2006: 70,100
Iraq Body Count Cumulative Total Through 1 December 2006: 49,000 – 54,400
NOTE ON “IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED” TABLES:
Information for May 2003-December 2005 is based upon data from Iraq Body Count. We do not include entries recorded at the morgue (to avoid double-counting) or those which clearly involve the death of Iraqi police, police recruits, or Iraq Civil Defense Forces (in an attempt to index only civilians killed by acts of war. IBC itself removes military personnel.) The data shown in the chart are 1.75 times our IBC-based numbers, reflecting the fact that estimates for civilian casualties from the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior were 75 percent higher than those of our Iraq Body Count-based estimate over the aggregate May 2003 – December 2005 period.12 During this time, we separately studied the crime rate in Iraq, and on that basis estimated 23,000 murders throughout the country. Starting in 2006, we have found it is no longer practical to differentiate between acts of war and crime. Our estimates since January 2006 are based upon the numbers published in the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, “Human Rights Report: 1 May–30 June, 2006” and subsequent reports. This data combines the Iraq Ministry of Health’s tally of deaths counted at hospitals with the Baghdad Medico-Legal Institute’s tally of deaths counted at morgues. As a point of comparison between the two charts, we have found that the numbers we present for 2006
based on the UN (which include crime) are approximately twice what the estimates would be using the our methodology for the IBC data (not including crime) for the same time period.
False articles and fabricated numbers is hardly a credible news source.