On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:00:01 -0500, Dave wrote:

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:49:14 -0000, "thunder" said:

And Bush's number, 30,000?

Likely closer than anything contained in something called a "study."

Actually, not likely. As Gen. Franks said, "We don't do body counts." So
Bush's number did not come from within the government. It most likely
came from the Iraqi Body Count website, which now has civilian deaths at
@45,000. The IBC site uses a very conservative methodology, and only
counts *civilian* deaths. Total deaths are obviously much higher. It is
quite possible, this study is accurate, but more important than the
numbers is the trend, and the trend is more deaths, not less. Can you say
Civil War?

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/background.php#methods

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...121700017.html