Onward Christian soldiers
Marching on to war ...

That's a lot of lives lost.

Children, women and men.

Daughters, sons, mothers and fathers.

Husbands and wives.

That's a lot of vengence. And a whole lot of hatred.

No WMD's.

No peace.

No stability.

Why?

Punish them.

-- Marvie

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Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 11, 2006; A12

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000
more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March
2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.

The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random
sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones
produced by other groups, including Iraq's government.

It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that
President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times
the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the
British-based Iraq Body Count research group.

The surveyors said they found a steady increase in mortality since the
invasion, with a steeper rise in the last year that appears to reflect
a worsening of violence as reported by the U.S. military, the news
media and civilian groups. In the year ending in June, the team
calculated Iraq's mortality rate to be roughly four times what it was
the year before the war.

Of the total 655,000 estimated "excess deaths," 601,000 resulted from
violence and the rest from disease and other causes, according to the
study. This is about 500 unexpected violent deaths per day throughout
the country.

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