Study Claims Iraq’s ‘Excess’ Death Toll Has Reached 655,000

At the moment, the Iraq Body Count website pins the number of Iraqi deaths at between 43,000 and 48,000 (approximately). From my past reading, most in the US government or in the military accept their count as fairly accurate. They’re probably going to blow off these new findings, like they did a couple of years ago, when it was suggested that around 100,000 Iraqis had died in the first eighteen months of the war.