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A new Johns Hopkins study establishes the Iraq body count at 655,000 since the invasion begun [via sabotabby]

That's the number of extra deaths compared to what life was like before the invasion. Now, everyone remembers what life in Iraq was before the invasion, right? You know like, sanctions and shit? So if we actually tallied the death rate from before the US/British UN embargo, the number of deaths imputable to the U.S./British since the invasion would be even greater. This could give us an idea of the scale of the devastation inflicted upon this country since the first Gulf War, rather than at mid-point of the hostility campaign from the U.S. towards Iraq.

Not to dimish the importance of those new numbers anyway, it's pretty horrible.