So, the most accurate study up until now showing how many Iraqis had died as a result of the US invasion was 100,000, based on a 2004 Lancet survey. Before you discount it, you should probably listen to this. Even Joanna agrees the survey is probably accurate. And since they purposely didn’t survey Fallujah, it’s probably much higher than that. The most disturbing part? Almost all the deaths could be directly attributed to Coalition forces, rather than death from disease, etc, attributed to war.

Well, they’ve updated it for 2006, and are up to 650,000 deaths over baseline. To put it into perspective, similar surveys of our own civil war suggest somewhere around 615,000 deaths over baseline.