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Experts From Across Political Spectrum Pound Partisan Study on Iraqi Civilian Deaths Posted by Mark Finkelstein on October 13, 2006 - 14:55. With timing in the tradition of the leak of the Foley fiasco - geared to have maximum impact on the coming elections - a study was published earlier this week by The Lancet, a British medical science journal, claiming that 655,000 Iraqis have died “as a consequence of the war.”  The MSM predictably accorded the study great attention.In this item yesterday, I noted that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and MNF Commander Casey rejected the study's findings, which is...

In October, the British medical journal The Lancet published a study by researchers from the Johns Hop-kins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Baghdad’s Al Mustansiriya University, alleging that “654,965 more Iraqis may have died since hostilities began in Iraq in March 2003,” than would have died had Saddam Hussein remained in power. That research was quickly subjected to expert scrutiny, and questions about its methodology cast doubt on its findings. The publication’s timing was perhaps no coincidence, as it came before the November 2006 U.S. congressional elections. The study supposed that, on average, “a thousand Iraqis have been violently...

Isn't it awful, a friend said at dinner, that 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S. invasion? When I asked where the statistic came from, he said maybe it was 8,000, but definitely somewhere between 8,000 and 100,000. That's a broad spread, so I did some checking. The 100,000 estimate is from a survey of Iraqi households conducted last year by a team of scholars from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and published in a British medical journal, the Lancet. As luck would have it, the team was anti-war, and the study was released just before the presidential election....

Shortly before the war in Iraq started, a small outfit named Iraq Body Count (IBC) coalesced in the ether of cyberspace with a singular goal: to tabulate the civilian deaths resulting from a U.S. invasion. The group predicted famines and plagues, citing U.N. surveys that said there would be "starvation and homelessness for millions," and at least "two million refugees." Within weeks IBC web counters, replete with the image of bombs dropping from a plane, peppered left-wing websites and noted the escalating civilian casualties, updated as soon as the now-massive IBC database was. Two years later, those same counters are...

This anti-war site lists roughly 15,000 civilian deaths, not 100,000, and still a far cry from the roughly 500,000 - 1 million civilians Saddam Hussein killed. The 100,000 may (intentionally or unintentionally) include non-civilians.

Violence in Iraq has killed 100,000 plus Iraqi cililians since the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. U.S. airstrikes are blamed for the high casualty rate. The poll taken shocked authorities whose estimates were more like 15,000.