Just Foreign Policy: Estimated Iraqi Deaths Due to Invasion Nears 1 Million (Lancet Numbers Updated)

[Hissyspit]

http://thismodernworld.com/3845

Estimated Iraqi deaths due to U.S. invasion nears one million

Last year Johns Hopkins researchers produced a study estimating that 650,000 Iraqis had died as of July, 2006 as a result of the U.S. invasion. The organization Just Foreign Policy has now created a very rough new estimate, based on the original study, of deaths to the present day. The number they came up with is just under one million.

The graphic above provides a rough daily update of this number based on a rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

[Hissyspit]

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[Solo_in_MD]

2. The originally study was also soundly criticized at the time for methodology

Its sort of like cluster munition in Lebanon. Pick a number you like and go with it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Soundly criticised in public; in private, British government advisers said it was good

Iraqi deaths survey 'was robust'

The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died due to the war, the BBC has learnt.

Iraqi Health Ministry figures put the toll at less than 10% of the total in the survey, published in the Lancet.

But the Ministry of Defence's chief scientific adviser said the survey's methods were "close to best practice" and the study design was "robust".

Another expert agreed the method was "tried and tested".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6495753.stm

[DearAbby]

3. How many more will die due to a lie?

I had posted this earlier, the carnage is shocking. Will the US (Liberal media) report this? Excuse me, I don't plan to hold my breath waiting for them to report this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1274700