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Wow, 655 000 dead SINCE we stepped in to help out Iraq. Bet they're glad we turned up just in time. According to a recent report:

More than 600,0000 civilians have died as a result of the war in Iraq, according to a team of American and Iraqi scientists. The estimate - far higher than previous figures - was arrived at by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households. But US President George Bush, who has previously estimated a figure of (a mere) 30,000, has called the latest number "not credible".

US President George Bush would probably view any number with more than three digits, and any word with more than three syllables, as not credible.

Then the report gets worrying.

Violent deaths in Iraq are currently totalling 100 a day. The UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland says "many of those are killed by gunshots or have been tortured to death".

But then things look up a little.

Of the 655,000 estimated "excess deaths," 601,000 resulted from violence and the rest from disease and other causes, according to the study.

So you can only blame us for 601 000 deaths. The rest were caused by poor hygiene and clumsiness.

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