Iraq deaths put at 655,000 - Someone is going to have to go The Hague

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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-10-11T154006Z_01_L11717456_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-DEATHS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-3

LONDON (Reuters) - American and Iraqi public health experts have calculated that about 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence, far above previous estimates.

Researchers used household interviews rather than body counts to estimate how many more Iraqis had died because of the war than used to die annually in peacetime.

"We estimate that as a consequence of the coalition invasion of March 18, 2003, about 655,000 Iraqis have died above the number that would be expected in a non-conflict situation," said Gilbert Burnham of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States.

That means 2.5 percent of the Iraqi population have died because of the invasion and ensuing strife, he said.

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1. Bush says study is flawed in his press conference but would not say

...how it is flawed. As usual Bush has not read the study, but feels he can still claim it is flawed.

This study seems to make a pretty good case, I guess Bush wants to see more that 13.3 persons per 1,000 die. Will he be happy when it is 133.0 per 1,000?