Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[JMKel]

Minimizing the harm done by your fearless leader again.
Destructive, greedy SOB.

I'll believe the medical people over the Bushits any day of the week.


"NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , PARIS
Saturday, Oct 30, 2004,Page 6

Iraqis gather next to the remains of a car destroyed by a roadside bomb near Khales on Wednesday. A new study by John Hopkins University estimates that 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq as a consequence of last year's US-led invasion.
PHOTO: EPA

An estimated 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq as a direct or indirect consequence of last year's US-led invasion, according to a new study by a research team at the Bloom-berg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Coming just a few days before the presidential election the finding is certain to generate intense controversy, since it is far higher than previous mortality estimates for the Iraq conflict.

Editors of The Lancet, the London-based medical publication, where an article describing the study is scheduled to appear, decided not to wait for the normal publication date next week, but to place the research online yesterday, apparently so it could circulate before the election.

The Bush administration has not estimated civilian casualties from the conflict, and independent groups have put the number at most in the tens of thousands."