655,000 Iraq War Deaths

TruthDig by Curren Warf, MD | Oct. 17, 2006 (Editorial)

Last week the esteemed medical journal The Lancet released an epidemiological study concluding that 655,000 Iraqis died from war-related injury and disease from March 2003 to July 2006. This shockingly high figure has drawn attacks from the Bush administration and right-wing pundits. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Rod Amis - Oct 18, 2006 - 11:07 AM PDT
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 by Rod Amis - Oct. 18, 2006

A medical expert steps forward to criticize the criticism of the Lancet report on the number of Iraqi civilian deaths since the US invasion. A well-written, though thinly sourced retort.

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