Updated Iraq Dead Count

This was very overlooked in mainstream media, (for some reason-- gee, can't figger out why) but is extremely important.

While Iraq Body Count lists around 50,000 Iraqis dead (garnered from newspapers and other published lists), a recent study sponsored by Johns Hopkins and local Iraqi scholars found more than ten times that number have actually died.

As many as 654,965 more Iraqis may have died since hostilities began in Iraq in March 2003 than would have been expected under pre-war conditions, according to a survey conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The deaths from all causes—violent and non-violent—are over and above the estimated 143,000 deaths per year that occurred from all causes prior to the March 2003 invasion. That's more than the city of Oakland (and about 16 times the size of Normal), and almost the entire population of the city of San Francisco.

And the US dead? Just over 3,000.