Devastating Death Toll
There’s a devastating new report about the Iraq war?not in the mainstream media or in a political book, but in the British medical journal The Lancet. It says that over 650,000 people have died in the last 3 years in Iraq as a result of the war?that’s about almost 3% of the population and is more than 20 times higher than President George Bush claimed a little over a year ago. Previous official government estimates have placed casualties at a much lower level of between 50 and 125,000.read more