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If 80% of the people supplied death certificates, why wouldn’t the government be aware of these deaths? It doesn’t seem credible their sample had an 80% return rate on death certificates, but for the population as a whole certificates are only issued to a much smaller fraction.

In other words, if Iraqis are getting death certificates at an 80% rate, why aren’t the “official” number much higher?

Also, he is wrong on the Civil War. People weren’t just dying on the battlefield in a day or 2. Because of the terrible problem of disease, roughly 2/3 of all deaths were from disease. It doesn’t seem plausible that Iraq is seeing numbers at a greater rate than that AND that rate isn’t being noticed by the UN and international media.