On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:24:38 -0500, "Jeff Rigby"
wrote:

Read the response, the Lancet study is flawed!

You asked where the figure came from. It came from Lancet. I don't
know if it's a flawed study or not, and that wasn't the questions.

The link I posted is a site
that is anti war. It is reasonably anti war and is there to point out the
cost in lives of our actions. It has no other political agenda.

Being anti-war doesn't make it right. The study's have different
methods. It looks like the IBC site only count dead that are
reported by official sources, morgues, hospitals, etc. If I'm not
mistaken, Muslim custom says a body should be buried within 24 hours
of death. If somebody gets their head blown off as a side effect of
some battle, there's little reason to take them to a hospital. It
pretty clear what the cause of death was, there's no money for doing
it, and really, nobody cares. So, as custom dictates, the body is
buried in the family plot, by the family, and nobody official reports
it. In this case, which is probably fairly common, the person doesn't
end up on IBCs site because it wasn't reported by any official source,
but the person is still dead.

bb