Nice going. 655,000 Iraqi deaths due to our illegal and immoral invasion and occupation

Let's see... that's twice as many as Hussein killed in 25 years. That's over 200 times those killed in 9/11. That's over 230 times as many killed as US forces have lost.

Nothing succeeds like excess. Mission Accomplished!

From the Guardian:
'655,000 Iraqis killed since invasion'

The death toll among Iraqis as a result of the US-led invasion has now reached an estimated 655,000, a study in the Lancet medical journal reports today.

The figure for the number of deaths attributable to the conflict - which amounts to around 2.5% of the population - is at odds with figures cited by the US and UK governments and will cause a storm, but the Lancet says the work, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, has been examined and validated by four separate independent experts who all urged publication.

In October 2004, the same researchers published a study estimating that 100,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the war since the beginning of the March 2003 invasion, a figure that was hugely controversial. Their new study, they say, reaffirms the accuracy of their survey of two years ago and moves it on.