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Originally Posted by Azure
And? I just showed you the official count. 600,000 is stretching it, a lot. And even if it were true...600,000 is still a long way from a million.
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In fact, the real number of people that have been killed in Iraq is a lot more difficult to measure than you'd think. There's "official" counts which record deaths that were reported, and for which paperwork was filed. There's counts that include newspaper accounts (which in the fog of war are not always dependable). There's the "survey" method which asks people to report on the number of people they know who have been killed and extrapolates the data, drawing conclusions from that.... the list goes on.
What's very clear is this: "official" body counts are laughably low. Others, in all likelihood, are too high. The moral of the story, though? 600,000, 400,000, a million, 200,000--any way you slice it, that's a lot of lives that have been ended by this conflict. You can't lay all of them at Bush's doorstep--many have been killed by insurgents or militants in the growing civil war--but if I were him, I'd have the mirrors taken out of my house, and order a truckload full of Ambien.