By the end of 2005 international aid agencies estimated that there were rather more than 1.3 million people who were "internally displaced" within Iraq. At the end of the same year, more than 500,000 had taken refuge in Jordan and another 500,000 in Syria. These numbers have increased over this past year. Bill Frelick wrote about the situation in Jordan at roughly the same time that Bush went to Amman to meet with Maliki. The link will take you to his report. Before the end of 2005, this was more than twice the number of people who had gone into exile during the period of Saddam's rule. The adult males, unemployed, are involved in the fighting. Women and children make up a lot of the refugees. In Jordan the children are not allowed into public or private schools. The adult refugees become competitors with local Jordanians in the labor pool, doing menial work, and worse.

Weisbrot documents how US violence against the Iraqi people has continued and if anything worsened

The estimate of more than one million violent deaths in Iraq was confirmed again two months ago in a poll by the British polling firm Opinion Research Business, which estimated 1,220,580 violent deaths since the US invasion. This is consistent with the study conducted by doctors and scientists from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health more than a year ago. Their study was published in the Lancet, Britain's leading medical journal. It estimated 601,000 people killed due to violence as of July 2006; but if updated on the basis of deaths since the study, this estimate would also be more than a million. These estimates do not include those who have died because of public health problems created by the war, including breakdowns in sewerage systems and electricity, shortages of medicines, etc.