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Nov. 3rd, 2006 01:53 pmHere is a priceless, tasteless, totally not work-safe, political song comparing the mistakes made by Bill Clinton to those made by George W. Bush.
Here and here (free registration required) are two versions of a study estimating how many people have been killed in the war in Iraq. The authors, from the Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University and the medical school of Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, estimate that approximately 600,000 people were killed in the war between March 2003 and July 2006. The precise meaning of "approximately 600,000" is: With 95% probability, between 426,369 and 793,663 people were killed in the war during the period studied.
An additional 53,000 or so non-violent deaths above the pre-invasion mortality rate are attributed to reduced quality of and access to health care.
Mortality rates have been steadily climbing since the invasion; the current mortality rate exceeds the pre-invasion mortality rate in Iraq by approximately 1.5% of the population per year.
It is possible that this report underestimates the true number of deaths. The study excludes data from Fallujah because it was an outlier. Households in which everybody died are not included because there was nobody in the household to interview.
I think every American citizen should read this study.
Here and here (free registration required) are two versions of a study estimating how many people have been killed in the war in Iraq. The authors, from the Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University and the medical school of Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, estimate that approximately 600,000 people were killed in the war between March 2003 and July 2006. The precise meaning of "approximately 600,000" is: With 95% probability, between 426,369 and 793,663 people were killed in the war during the period studied.
An additional 53,000 or so non-violent deaths above the pre-invasion mortality rate are attributed to reduced quality of and access to health care.
Mortality rates have been steadily climbing since the invasion; the current mortality rate exceeds the pre-invasion mortality rate in Iraq by approximately 1.5% of the population per year.
It is possible that this report underestimates the true number of deaths. The study excludes data from Fallujah because it was an outlier. Households in which everybody died are not included because there was nobody in the household to interview.
I think every American citizen should read this study.
