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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A respected British medical journal, The Lancet, published a study which estimated the number of "excess deaths" in Iraq resulting from the war to range from 8,000 to 194,000, with 95 percent confidence that the actual death toll was at least 98,000.
If you want to learn more, you can see this Australian blogger's posts on the subject. Be warned that the stuff is statistics-intensive.
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So the population was much better off when they were getting gassed? How come people focus so much on death in war, and not on deaths caused by despotic governments. More people were killed by their own government in the last century than died in warfare. It seems to me if people in the last century had spent more time trying to avoid despotic governments (especially communists one) than trying to avoid war that the last century would have been much less bloody.
