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I too think this study is somewhat inflated; however I don’t think the “official” counts are accurate either. The fact that some 80% of the survey is actually accounted for and verified via death certificates lends at least some credibility to the study.

If we assume that there are in fact 16,000+ deaths per month, and we further assume that Iraq has a land area of some 160,000+ square miles, and if we assume that most of the population lives in only 1% of that land area we are left with only about 10 deaths per month per square mile (of inhabited area).

With those assumptions you’re also looking at a population density of approximatly: 14,000 per square mile.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t know everyone within a square mile of me and I wouldn’t even notice if 10 of them died, or even if 400/14,000 of them died within the last 40 months.

When you look at the numbers like that, I don’t think it’s reasonable to think that even if this study is accurate that “liberal” aid agncies and the like would be all over this.

Don’t just ignore the hungary example. Countries with no wars can have mortality rates as high as indicated by this study and nobody blinks an eye.