Gen. Hugh Shelton: Bush Officials Pushed For Iraq War 'Almost To The Point Of Insubordination' (VIDEO)

Wikileaks documents said that the majority of those deaths were caused by OTHER IRAQIS

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Some, & the result of US troops not protecting Iraqi civilians. Meaning, when we weren't killing Iraqi civilians, we were letting others kill them. That's a war crime, dearie.



Lancet Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000



Epidemiologists estimate that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would've died if the invasion hadn't occurred.



It's more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that Bush gave in a speech in December. It's more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based IraqBodyCount research group.



The surveyors said they found a steady increase in mortality since the invasion, with a steeper rise in the last year that appears to reflect a worsening of violence as reported by the US military, the news media & civilian groups. In the year ending in June, the team calculated Iraq's mortality rate to be roughly four times what it was the year before the war.



Of the total 655,000 estimated "excess deaths," 601,000 resulted from violence & the rest from disease & other causes, according to the study. This is about 500 unexpected violent deaths per day throughout the country.



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Wikileaks vindicates the findings by the Lancet study which Bush officials condemned when it was originally published.
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