650,000 Iraqis Died Since U.S. Invasion

More than 650,000 people have died in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion of the country began in March of 2003. This is according to a new study published in the scientific journal, The Lancet. The study was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. Researchers based their findings on interviews with a random sampling of households taken in clusters across Iraq.

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As you can guess, the White House is dismissing the report, saying that its methodology is discredited and the real figure is no more than 30 to 50,000.


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