Researcher's Estimate (upper limit): 942,000 IRAQIs Dead...

[neoblues]

654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War
Hopkins research yields toll far higher than most estimates
by Jonathan Bor
October 11, 2006

• The researchers now say that Iraqi deaths totaled between 392,000 to 942,000. Their best estimate is 654,000.

Taking the middle ground...

• "...The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, the researchers estimated that 654,000 more Iraqis died of various causes after the invasion than would have died in a comparable period before."
  
• "The scientists attributed 600,000 of those deaths to acts of violence."
  
• "In the earlier study, Iraqis told interviewers that about a third of all deaths were caused by coalition forces. Since then, the proportion has dropped to about a quarter..."

In 2005, Bush estimated 30,000 had died (more than an order of magnitude less than the Lancet's current estimate).

Of course, the estimate of 654,000 is just that, an estimate--a mathematical extrapolation from the results of studying 47 neighborhood clusters.

How many then? It's anybody's guess and it's doubtful anyone will ever really know with any certainty.

[Swamp Rat]

1. Bushler is gaining on Hitler

[shadowknows69]

5. Potentially he'll beat him

If he sets off the powder keg of Iran which seems to be nearly inevitable at this point

[Wizard777]

2. Bush's Genocide

Ole Grandpappy Prescott and Uncle Adolph would be proud of him. After WWII when the American public began to find out about Hitlers atrocities. We used to wonder how the Germans could have tollerated that. We wondered why they just didn't drop everything they were doing and drag Hitler out of his office and hang him from the first tree they came too. Well now we know.

[illinoisprogressive]

3. depressing and disgusting. Even if it was Bush's folly we all will be blamed.

[lligrd]

4. And We Were There To Revenge The Deaths Of 3000

according to some idiots. This was predictable but that doesn't lesson the tragedy.

[OneBlueSky]

6. whatever the number, it's a crime against humanity of the highest order . . .

and those responsible must be brought to justice before the international community . . .