It’s Only a Number – Take 655,000

I’m sorry to tell you that, I must print a retraction. In my last blog post I claimed that there were “greater than 100,000” civilian deaths in Iraq. It turns out I was completely wrong. While I was technically correct that the civilian death toll in Iraq is greater than 100,000, I had actually used a very old number, which turns out to be too low. It seems that, according to The Lancet, a British medical journal, the actual death toll among civilians in Iraq is more than 655,000. And that is just the toll since George Bush infamously stood beneath a banner declaring “mission accomplished.” Now I have to wonder out loud, what exactly was that mission? You can find information about the podcast of the Lancet here.